Kingston Stockade founder Dennis Crowley

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

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Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Dennis Crowley co-founded the app Foursquare, but in 2015 he turned his attention to the lower levels of American soccer. On the new Planet Futbol Podcast, Crowley speaks with Grant Wahl about his experiences starting NPSL club Kingston Stockade from scratch, the team's relative success in the New York area, and how the American soccer system needs to change in order to create more opportunity for small, locally-focused clubs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. I'm Grant Wall and our guest
0:11.4	is Dennis Crowley.
0:13.2	Dennis is the co-founder of the technology company Four Square.
0:17.2	And he also has a new startup,
0:19.2	the Kingston Stockade, a fourth division,
0:22.1	NPSL soccer team, based in the Hudson Valley, about 100 miles
0:26.2	north of where we are right now in New York City at the Four Square offices.
0:31.2	Dennis is all about startups, and we are going to talk about what that's like in the
0:36.2	world of US soccer. Thanks for joining me, Dennis. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be a part of this.
0:41.1	I'm fired up for this because I find you fascinating
0:44.0	in what you're doing with the stockade. How did this idea come about? What is it?
0:51.5	Yeah, so the idea was and you know I've been playing on a club soccer team in the city with some
1:04.0	friends and we were thinking you know what would have to happen in the world for
1:08.1	our team to you know end up playing say the Red Bulls, right? Is that even possible?
1:13.6	When we knew about the Open Cup,
1:15.0	but we didn't know about qualifying.
1:16.4	We didn't, you know, it wasn't as well versed on all things,
1:19.6	pro-rail as I am now. But, you know know looking at some of the history you know you're just starting to see
1:25.8	that some of these clubs have started from scratch and our thinking was
1:29.2	why don't we just start a club from scratch and why don't we try to put it in an area where we think that people would love it up in the
1:35.5	up in the Hudson Valley where people are regularly commuting you know an hour or two hours in to see an
1:41.7	NYC of C game.
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