{"id":265259,"date":"2026-06-13T03:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265259\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:33:43","slug":"news-12-bronx-nyc-open-play-offers-free-overnight-soccer-games-at-city-parks-during-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265259\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Nyc Open Play Offers Free Overnight Soccer Games At City Parks During Fifa World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">There is an old saying that New York is \u201cthe city that never sleeps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Well, now NYC is proving it by organizing overnight soccer games in city parks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the launch of NYC Open Play on Friday. It provides access to free, pick-up soccer games while the FIFA World Cup is underway.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New Yorkers ages 18 and up can play between 10:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. through July 18.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt gets more people interested in the sport, which is, you know, we need that here in the United States,\u201d said Jeremy Salto, of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt can bring people together, like communities or different countries, so they can all play together,\u201d said Jonathan Perez, of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">There are five participating parks across the city &#8212; one in every borough:<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hudson River Park\u2019s Chelsea Waterside in Manhattan <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Astoria Park in Queens <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Soundview Park in the Bronx <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fairview Park on Staten Island <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Players can sign up <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/nycopenplay.com\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online either individually or register as teams.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe\u2019re working every day, and after the workday we need to run and play with our friends, \u201d said Talekh Guluev, a soccer fan from Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">City leaders said each park will have staff to provide soccer equipment and coordinate games for different skill levels.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Security will also be on hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is an old saying that New York is \u201cthe city that never sleeps.\u201d Well, now NYC is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-265259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265259","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=265259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}