Shouts in different languages bounced around the top floor of a former torpedo factory along the industrial waterfront of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
“Dispara!” “Back to D!” “Vas-y, passe!”
These were the cheers of supporters who’d come to see their friends and relatives play at Socceroof, a 75,000-square-foot indoor soccer facility with 10 fields, an in-house bar and pretty good views of the Statue of Liberty.
Inside that day, there was a Japanese club from Westchester County playing a team representing the Brooklyn Italians Soccer Club in a children’s tournament. The Ecua Boys and Cobras were going at it in an adult competition organized by the Liga Mexicana Infantil de Brooklyn.