ASC New York is built on a foundation of shared experience that could only take place in the Long Island NYC metro area.  Some may recognize these experiences – older and more recent.

CYO and Youth Club soccer rivalries with some pioneering (at the time) youth clubs – Glen Cove, Smithtown, Gjoa, Northport, Hicksville, Deer Park, Eintracht, Massapequa, BW Gottschee, North Babylon, Hota Bavarian among others.

- Watching the Gordon Bradley-managed NY Cosmos at Hofstra stadium where Randy Horton racked up the goals and Jorge Siega danced on wings.  You could see Werner, Shep, Sigi, Joe Fink and Paul LeSeur ‘representing’.  

- Shortly after, the eyes of the world were on Randalls Island for 90 minutes as Pele took the field and changed the game in America forever.  Giorgio, Bogie, Carlos Alberto, Kaiser Franz on the field in our backyard with Earhardt Kapp and Ricky Davis.

- The early days of college soccer with classic matches such as Adelphi vs. Hofstra, St. Francis vs. LIU Brooklyn, Fordham vs. NYU, Columbia vs UConn.  Legendary coaches such as Dieter Ficken, Arnie Ramirez, Ken Germano, Schnur, Monty, Tramontozzi and Tommy Lang.  Seeing some legendary players with some of the coolest names ever – Dragan Radovic, Chinapoo, Gaetano Messina, Manny Matos, Kazbek Tambi....  

- On the field with / against Inter Giuliana, GH Metros, Greek Americans, NY Hota Bavarians, Brooklyn Italians, Blue Star and Pancyprian Freedoms who not only featured some top-notch players but showed the deep talent in this area by reaching or winning the U.S. Open Cup final 1 times from 1970 through the advent of MLS in 1995.

- Watching that first U.S. Men’s Team in 50 years compete in the 1990 FIFA World Cup with Queens, NY ‘local boy’ Mike Windischmann wearing the captain’s armband and anchoring the American back line.

- Launching the first ever Men’s USISL Pro-team and Women’s W-League team based in Uniondale, Long Island – with both winning a National Championship in their second year. That inaugural men’s team roster sent such players as Meola, Armas, Rooney and Savarese to MLS and the U.S. Men’s National team, while serving as a platform for future coach and league administrator Alfonso Mondelo. 

- Tail-gating at Giants Stadium for hours before taking our seats in Giants stadium and watching Ireland vs. Italy as the “unofficial but real” opening match of the 1994 World Cup.  A few weeks later Germany – Bulgaria wasn’t bad at all ..... but nothing could compare with all of Queens (Ireland) vs. all of Brooklyn (Italy) in that first match in the NYC metro area.

- Taking a concept called the Long Island Soccer Park from drawing board to competition site for the entire soccer community to experience.

- Supporting the 1998 Goodwill Games, international women’s soccer, at Mitchel Park, featuring the now iconic 1999 U.S. Women’s National Team – World Cup champions.  

Gracing our local fields during their week long visit were women’s legends such as Julie Fowdy amd Mia Hamm – with local products Sara Whelan (Syosset) and Shannon MacMillan (Geenlawn) on the team.  

Current and long-serving U.S. Women’s National team player – Crystal Dunn (Rockville Center) – was 6 or 7 years old at the time and we’d like to think she got one of the many autographs that the greatest generation of women’s soccer tirelessly doled out to all who showed up. 

- All along the way was Summer Soccer at the Jones Beach Fields, the LIJSL Convention every year, Copa Mundialito, Youth tournaments of all size and flavor, Premier League Soccer on TV, Supporters Groups pubs – Arsenal, Man Utd, Barca, and more.

- More recently and part of the BQE resume was the abbreviated re-launch of the NY Cosmos anchored by a $250 million soccer stadium development project at Belmont Park. 

- And one of the seismic events in American Soccer on October 10, 2017 with Trinidad & Tobago vs U.S. (2-1) in WC 2018 qualifying, knocking the U.S. out of the finals for the first time in 28 years.  Taylor Twellman’s iconic rant as the perfect post-mortem to that result “What are we doing?”.

Our answer to that is “Launching ASC New York”.