Soccer is the new golf

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Source: www.crainsnewyork.com --- Sunday, September 23, 2012
At least once a week, Savannah Tikotsky stays in the office until 10:30 p.m., killing time until her coed soccer game starts at a field on the Lower East Side. On another night, she heads to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to play a pickup game with a different group from 8 to 10 p.m. And on yet another weeknight, she practices with a third team?in a competitive women's league?to get ready for their Sunday game. "I moved here five years ago from California and looked for a team as a way to get to know people," said Ms. Tikotsky, a senior account executive at Feintuch Communications. "Since then, more and more leagues keep sprouting up, and there are pickup games everywhere people can find a field." Forget softball, and don't even think about Golf. Soccer?long scoffed at by Americans for being a slow-moving, monotonous and low-scoring game?has become the first choice for recreation among many young professionals in New York. With the first generation to take part in the youth soccer boom now in their 20s and 30s, and the success of the U.S. women's team in the World Cup and Olympics, the sport is enjoying a newfound popularity among adults. Companies are forming teams to build workplace camaraderie, and new leagues and tournaments are being created to meet the growing demand. "There is a huge growth in adult organized leagues," said Leonard Shostak, a business consultant who referees soccer games on the side. "It used to be that companies ...

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