Tag: New York
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Get to know your Team USA Athletes for the 2024 Homeless World Cup!
Read more: Get to know your Team USA Athletes for the 2024 Homeless World Cup!We’re excited to introduce our 16 athletes, chosen from our SSUSA programs in Sacramento, New York, and Charlotte. These players have overcome many challenges, coming from the shelter system, wrongful incarceration, or as refugees and asylum seekers. SSUSA has been an important part of their journey and a source of hope in their lives. Jonathan…
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Building A ‘Field of Dreams’ In The Bronx
Read more: Building A ‘Field of Dreams’ In The BronxBUILDING A ‘FIELD OF DREAMS’ IN THE BRONX By Venanzio Ciampa Street Soccer USA Coach & Board Member, President of The Promotion Factory Our underserved communities face a slew of problems, from poverty and crime to homelessness and addiction. But there is hope. The story of Street Soccer USA’s successful effort to build a new soccer field in the Claremont section…
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Juventus Sponsors Street Soccer USA Girls National Team
Read more: Juventus Sponsors Street Soccer USA Girls National TeamJuventus partners with Street Soccer USA; Brings Gioca Con Me Girls National Team to Play Exhibition in Times Square before Team Travels to Qatar for Street Child World Cup New York, NY (September 8th, 2022) – Today Juventus and Street Soccer USA announced that the Street Soccer USA Times Square Cup, taking place on the…
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Global Soccer Power Borussia Dortmund and National Nonprofit Street Soccer USA Unite.
Read more: Global Soccer Power Borussia Dortmund and National Nonprofit Street Soccer USA Unite.New Partnership aims to Fight Poverty and Strengthen Communities through Soccer in New York City’s Sunset Park Brooklyn, NY – On November 20, 2021, Street Soccer USA coaches passed out new black- and yellow- colored uniforms to boys and girls from its Sunset Park Community Soccer Club in Brooklyn, NY. The new kits are the…
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In Memoriam: Akeem Loney
Read more: In Memoriam: Akeem LoneyDear Friends, You may have read the media coverage about the senseless loss of one of our Street Soccer players in New York City, Akeem Loney. Akeem, or “Lonny” as he was known, was murdered on the subway in the early morning hours this past Saturday, in what seems to have been a robbery. Obviously…
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FLATBUSH COURT OPENING
Read more: FLATBUSH COURT OPENINGStreet Soccer USA cut the ribbon on our newest field and program at Flatbush Gardens in Brooklyn on Monday. Located in a courtyard surrounded by 1,300 units of housing, the setting is ideal for a true community based sport for development academy, providing youth with an alternative to the pay-to-play model of youth sports.