“So, Let’s Build A Professional Soccer Team From Scratch …”

A manifesto on the intersection of startups and lower-level soccer that ends with the United States winning the World Cup.

About a year ago I got hooked on this idea to start a soccer team from scratch located in the middle of the Hudson Valley, and try to make a run at qualifying for the US Open Cup. (The US Open Cup is a 100-year-old soccer tournament that works kind-of like the NCAA basketball tourney in that lower-ranked, lower-level (even amateur) teams get the chance to compete against the biggest and best teams in all of US soccer)….

<the rest of this post is available HERE. I created this “teaser” post since the original post was published by Sports Illustrated (!!) and Medium does not let articles be published to more than one publication. Sorry for the inconvenience!>

https://the-cauldron.com/so-lets-build-a-pro-soccer-team-from-scratch-69a7588bb2da