Arsenal<\/a> fan, has engaged with the NYC soccer community before. As part of his mayoral campaign, he hosted a free soccer tournament called the \u201cCost of Living Classic\u201d last summer with NYCFooty, the large recreational soccer organization where he has also been a player.<\/p>\nIn the fall, he announced a campaign called \u201cGame Over Greed\u201d focused on addressing the affordability of the 2026 FIFA World Cup . The campaign called on FIFA to not use dynamic pricing, cap resale prices, and set aside tickets for residents. Several World Cup matches, including the final, will be played in New Jersey, meaning there will be a large focus on the sport this summer in the New Jersey and New York areas.<\/p>\n
Mamdani posted a video on Sunday afternoon announcing that he and Gotham were partnering to provide a thousand $5 tickets to the club\u2019s May 9 match against the Boston Legacy. \u201cWe\u2019re teaming up with the nation\u2019s two-time champions to make soccer more affordable for everyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In the video, he was wearing the club\u2019s recently debuted third kit, a white and orange kit featuring the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis is the summer of soccer,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cGrab your tickets and I\u2019ll see you there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gotham has historically struggled with attendance, partially due to their home field location in Harrison, New Jersey, at Sports Illustrated Stadium.<\/p>\n
They will play the \u201cQueens Classic\u201d at Citi Field this summer against the Washington Spirit on July 15, a rare home match played within New York City.<\/p>\n
Gotham recently won a 3-0 home match against Bay FC, their second win of the season after a difficult start to the year. They will play again on Wednesday, with a mid-week away match against the Chicago Stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani made waves last year when he ran for mayor on a platform of affordability…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31976,29426,83323,9,320,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":["post-211189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arsenal","tag-gotham","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}