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Hubert Rovers

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Our guest this episode is Hubert Rovers, Founder and CEO of the European Football for Development Network.

He launched EFDN with the mission to tackle social issues through football and bring together European clubs to work together, share best practices and amplify the good work they all do.

From just 7 founding clubs this has grown to over 100.

An influential fan of his hometown football club he took his passion for creating events and engaging fans to a career in football community development

We discuss Hubert’s early life and business ventures and how he has used his start up experience to launch and scale the foundation.

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How are you going to create that change?
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What is available becomes wider and bigger as the network grows.
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32:18

Balancing impacting for the community and benefit to the club leads to success.
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Sharing knowledge, creating opportunities, improving impact and creating visibility for the social power of European football.
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By 2025 we would like to have 250 open club members.
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