{"id":16912,"date":"2024-04-12T04:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycsn.weavers-web.com\/?p=16912"},"modified":"2024-04-12T04:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:10:53","slug":"professional-soccer-to-kick-off-in-coney-island-this-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycsn\/professional-soccer-to-kick-off-in-coney-island-this-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Soccer to Kick Off in Coney Island This August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready, Brooklyn! Professional soccer is coming to Coney Island this summer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget-dfp gam widget-inject widget-inject-centre empower-local widget-injected\" data-id=\"834050\" data-widget=\"41\" data-per=\"10\" data-min=\"\" data-path=\"\/21842630800\/NET_Empower_Stories\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-targeting=\"[]\" data-dim-m=\"[1,1]\" data-dim-t=\"[1,1]\" data-dim-d=\"[1,1]\" data-size=\"[1,1]\">\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\">\n<div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklynfootballclub.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/brooklynfootballclub.com\/\">Brooklyn Football Club<\/a>, or Brooklyn FC, had a ribbon-cutting ceremony at their new turf at Maimonides Park in Coney Island on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The club&#8217;s professional women\u2019s team will begin playing in August of 2024 in the United Soccer\u00a0League. The professional men\u2019s team will begin playing in 2025, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we\u2019re trying to do here in Brooklyn is build a transformational hub for U.S. soccer and rethink soccer clubs in an innovative way,&#8221; said\u00a0Matt Rizzetta, the chief executive officer of the North Sixth Group\u00a0and chairman of BKFC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think Brooklyn is the perfect place to do that, right here in our backyards. To us, this is really a project where we need to join hands. We need to join hands with the\u00a0 community, we need to join hands with the people who identify with Brooklyn. Small business, large business, hospital, schools, and we need to do this together,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The organization also owns\u00a0Two Bridges FC, a youth soccer development nonprofit, which provides free professional development and training.<\/p>\n<p>Maimonides Park is also home to the Brooklyn Cyclones, a farm team for the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready, Brooklyn! Professional soccer is coming to Coney Island this summer. The\u00a0Brooklyn Football Club, or Brooklyn FC, had a ribbon-cutting ceremony at their new turf at Maimonides Park in Coney Island on Wednesday. The club&#8217;s professional women\u2019s team will begin playing in August of 2024 in the United Soccer\u00a0League. 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