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David Joseph Brcic (born January 21, 1957) is a former soccer goalkeeper from the United States, who was a member of the American squad that competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He also represented the United States in the qualifiers for the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

Brcic attended Bishop DuBourg High School in Saint Louis, Missouri where he played goalkeeper on the schools soccer team. Brcic graduated from high school in 1976 and has been inducted into the school's Hall of Fame. After high school, Brcic attended St. Louis University where he played a single season of college soccer. In 1977, he left the university to sign with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League.

Brcic remained a back up with the Cosmos through the 1979 season. Through that year, he had played only 8 games in goal. Consequently, he moved to Scotland where he played a year, 6 games total, with Greenock Morton. However, he returned to the Cosmos for the 1981 season and remained with the team until it folded during the 1984-1985 indoor season.

Brcic did not only return to the Cosmos in 1979, he also earned his first cap with the national team when he came on for Arnie Mausser in a May 2, 1979 loss to France. Brcic did not play again for the senior team until 1984. That year he was the starting goalkeeper for the U.S. team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He also played two world cup qualifying matches, a May 30 tie with Italy and an atypical easy 4-0 defeat of the Netherland Antilles on October 6. He played one more game with the senior national team, a 2-1 world cup qualification victory over Trinidad and Tobago on May 15, 1985.

By this time Brcic was ending his outdoor professional career and had embarked on his indoor years. He gained his first indoor soccer experience during the 1981-1982 NASL indoor season. He played 14 games for the Cosmos as they finished with the league's second worst record. Brcic and the Cosmos did much better in the second NASL indoor season, which didn't take place until 1983-1984. He started 26 games as New York made it to the championship game before falling to the San Diego Sockers. The next year, the Cosmos entered the Major Indoor Soccer League. However, they were a shell of the team they were a few years prior and folded 33 games into the 48 game season. Brcic began the season with the Cosmos, but when they collapsed, he moved to the Wichita Wings. At the end of the season, he moved again to the Pittsburgh Spirit for the 1985-1986 season. Although the Spirit finished in the bottom of the standings, Brcic was selected to the first team All MISL list. For the 1986-1987 season, he was with his fourth team in three seasons, the Los Angeles Lazers. Once again, he found himself with a struggling team. Brcic also played with the Kansas City Comets and St. Louis Storm.

Since retiring from playing, Brcic has run a soccer camp and sells soccer equipment.

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