Alec Brader

{{Short description|English footballer (1942–2024)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Alec Brader

| image = Alec_Brader.jpg

| caption = Brader in 2017

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1942|10|6|df=y}}

| birth_place = Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|10|27|1942|10|6|df=y}}

| death_place = Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England

| height =

| position = Inside forward

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 =

| years1 = 1955–1956

| clubs1 = Horncastle United

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| years2 = 1956–1963

| clubs2 = Grimsby Town[https://www.marinersarchive.com/players-b?lightbox=dataItem-ks53wo5y2 Marinersarchive: Alec Brader]

| caps2 = 2

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 1963–19??

| clubs3 = Skegness Town

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| goals3 =

}}

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Alec Brader, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (6 October 1942 – 27 October 2024) was an English professional footballer, schoolteacher and youth athletics coach who played as an inside forward.{{cite book|last1=Lamming|first1=Douglas|title=A who's who of Grimsby Town AFC : 1890-1985|date=1985|publisher=Hutton|location=Beverley|isbn=0-907033-34-2|page=18}} Following his football career he became a schoolteacher teaching Physical Education, Geography, and European Studies, spending most of his career at William Lovell Academy where he eventually became Deputy Headmaster. He also volunteered as a youth athletics coach for Lincolnshire teams for over 40 years. For the Easter time he organized and went on tour with the Lincs Schools F.A.[https://twitter.com/LincsSchoolsFA Lincs Schools F.A.] to the triborder area of the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. The youth football players took part in international tournaments and friendly matches. {{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/boston-s-alec-brader-to-become-an-mbe-1-1114429|title=Boston's Alec Brader to become an MBE|website=www.bostonstandard.co.uk|language=en|access-date=5 October 2019}}

For his services to "young people" he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 New Years Honours list.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58929/supplement/14|title=London Gazette, Supplement 58929, page 14.|last=|first=|date=|website=London Gazette|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=6 October 2019}}

Brader died from kidney disease in Lincoln, on 27 October 2024, at the age of 82.{{Cite web |last=Brader |first=Sue |title=The family of Alec Brader sadly wish to announce after a long battle with kidney disease Alec passed away at Lincoln hospital |url=https://www.facebook.com/alec.brader/posts/pfbid0QiJJu9rHzyiBbiFqLqubGT8CnZP7wtbArYiCnrgNa53CKjojem9qURHXXQSZ79WHl |access-date=1 November 2024 |website=Facebook}}{{cite web |title=Alec Brader MBE |url=https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/alec/5216837 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241211222236/https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/alec/5216837 |archive-date=11 December 2024 |access-date=4 November 2024 |website=Funeral Notices}}