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By: Christopher Edwards<\/a><\/p>\n

For many fans, the weekend’s soccer highlights were surely the Copa America finals and the UEFA European Football Championship, but there was action in Brooklyn, too.<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn Football Club (Brooklyn FC)<\/a>, which was accepted into the\u00a0United Soccer League (USL)<\/a>\u00a0last year, faced off against Ecuador\u2019s C.D. Cuenca in a friendly scrimmage at\u00a0Maimonides Park in Coney Island on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn’s newest professional sports team will make their competitive debut in March 2025. That said, several thousand fans, mostly of C.D. Cuenca, attended Saturday’s scrimmage, where the teams tied 3-3 in a lively match.<\/p>\n

The game served as a test run for the new team, which will call Maimonides Park, known mostly as the home stadium of the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team, their official home.<\/p>\n

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Brooklyn Football Club makes their debut at an exhibition match against C.D. Cuenca. Photo: Christopher Edwards<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brooklyn FC\u00a0is the brainchild of Maximilian “Mack” Mansfield, who serves as the team\u2019s chief executive. He\u00a0is the founder of\u00a0Two Bridges<\/a>, a nonprofit that provides academic support to youth, as well as training in soccer. Bringing a professional soccer team to Brooklyn has been a longtime dream for Mansfield, who founded Two Bridges in 2021 after a career in finance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a year and a half in the making from an idea on a napkin to where we are now,\u201d says Mansfield on his team\u00a0going pro. \u201cTo me, it’s as emotional as it gets to see that talent from Brooklyn that we cultivated can now play at the professional level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of Saturday\u2019s players, who were all under 20 years of age, were trained through Mansfield\u2019s Two Bridges Academy.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few of our best players graduated from high school last week, and they just competed against grown men who play at the top division and Ecuador,\u201d said Calum Benjamin, chief of strategy for Brooklyn FC. \u201cIt just shows how good this team is, and what we’re gonna come with in March.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brooklyn Football Club CEO Maximillion Mansfield. Photo: Christopher Edwards\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The team is still in the process of drafting players for their official debut in the league and are hoping to find local talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re putting in long hours scouting the best talent in this area,\u201d said Mansfield. \u201cIt’s really important for us that a lot of the talent is local. There’s so much talent in Brooklyn. We feel like it’s our responsibility as a as a club to cultivate that talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoping to grow their fanbase organically, the team is taking a community-focused approach to marketing. They recently attended a block party celebrating 35th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the iconic Brooklyn film\u00a0Do the Right Thing<\/i>, where they had a booth to sign up for free summer coaching sessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re out in the community. We’re out doing watch parties at bars around the city, we’re doing poster campaigns, shaking hands, going to community events,\u201d said Benjamin. \u201cWe’re really just trying to hit Brooklyn in a really authentic way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Brooklyn Football Club team member signs a shirt from fans. Photo: Christopher Edwards\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Though the vast majority of Saturday night\u2019s attendees were there to see C.D. Cuenca, the crowd gave Brooklyn FC a warm welcome. Some fans waited for the players outside the stadium after the game to get T-shirts signed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know any of the players, but I would definitely come against see them play,\u201d said Luis Mendoza, who attended the game. \u201cThey put up a good fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team is backed by several investors, including Brooklyn native Tim Weah, who plays for the Italian Serie A team Juventus Football Club.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn FC will also have a women\u2019s team that will debut\u00a0in the\u00a0United Super League<\/a>\u00a0on August 31 in a home game against\u00a0Carolina Ascent Football Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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