Concrete2Green, LLC is the Premier Urban Soccer Company. C2G is also a socially conscious company that uses innovative and eco friendly strategies to grow the sport of soccer in US inner cities and urban communities. C2G’s mission is to revolutionize the way that soccer is played, viewed and thought of in the U.S. and to be the driving force behind urban soccer – a new landscape on which soccer is played that is directly linked to the culture of urban life.
C2G will provide the platform on which soccer can gain popularity and thrive in urban centers where large, vibrant communities of soccer players and fans already exist. Particularly in the United States, urban communities are not currently considered traditional centers of influence for soccer. However, urban cities, in general, and urban America, in particular, have proven to be the conduit that produces, popularizes, and legitimizes unique cultural expressions (e.g., music, fashion, and language) that are widely accepted, duplicated and consumed all over the world. Soccer has proven itself to be accessible to anyone and C2G will demonstrate how increasing soccer’s accessibility to urban America can translate into increased profitability and popularity in ways that have not been previously explored.
Chief among them is C2G’s commitment to managing its operations in ways that demonstrate its core value of protecting and improving the environment, with particular attention to the needs and concerns of urban communities. Through soccer, C2G will promote healthy, smart, and ‘green’ living that address challenges facing inner cities. Therefore, C2G seeks to partner with other companies and organizations that share our commitment to supporting ‘green’ initiatives for inner cities and those who live there.
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Contact Us:
Address:
Mailing Address:
1800 Camden Rd.
Suite 107#16
Charlotte, NC 28203
Concrete2Green Futsal Center
5471 Central Ave
Charlotte, NC 28212
704.248.4901
concrete2green1@gmail.com
Akbar Majeed - Co-Founder & President
akbar@concrete2green.com
Theresa Majeed - Business Development/Sales
theresa@concrete2green.com
Irvine Smalls - Co-Founder & Board Member
irv@concrete2green.com
Mailing Address:
1800 Camden Rd.
Suite 107#16
Charlotte, NC 28203
Concrete2Green Futsal Center
5471 Central Ave
Charlotte, NC 28212
704.248.4901
concrete2green1@gmail.com
Akbar Majeed - Co-Founder & President
akbar@concrete2green.com
Theresa Majeed - Business Development/Sales
theresa@concrete2green.com
Irvine Smalls - Co-Founder & Board Member
irv@concrete2green.com
NY Times: A Proposal for Mini-Spaces: Mini-Soccer
The New York Times
The City :Harlem
A Proposal for Mini-Spaces: Mini-Soccer
By ALEX MINDLIN Published: May 13, 2007
West Harlem is swarming with real estate speculators these days, so a worldly bystander might not have been surprised to see Irv Smalls Jr. looking covetously the other day at a trash-strewn lot on 114th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard.
But Mr. Smalls, a 34-year-old former Penn State football player, was not imagining river views or calculating square footage. “To me,” he said, “that’s a futsal field. That’s perfect. Please.”
Futsal is a compact, five-on-five form of soccer, invented in Uruguay in 1930 and popular around the world, especially as a training sport for young players. But for Mr. Smalls, who is now the executive director of a youth soccer club called FC Harlem Academy, its selling point is that the sport and its variants can be played on small concrete surfaces — for example, on a patch of bare cement at the edge of Taft Houses, a public housing project, which he had surveyed with delight that afternoon.
At other points in the day, Mr. Smalls had similar reactions to a brace of handball courts and to a fenced-in strip beneath a stretch of Metro-North tracks over Park Avenue, studded with widely spaced concrete pillars. “The fields could be between the pillars,” he announced happily.
Armed with photographs of such corners throughout Harlem, Mr. Smalls has begun seeking permission from the city and support from donors for a plan he calls Concrete2Green. He would like to lay rubberized mats, painted with futsal lines. over such areas around the neighborhood. He envisions a culture of gritty pickup street soccer, much like the culture that exists around basketball.
“In the rest of the world, soccer is an inner-city sport,” Mr. Smalls said. “I want to work on this perception that it’s a white sport in this country, and played only out in the suburbs.”
On May 4, Mr. Smalls met with officials at the Parks Department; a department spokesman, Warner Johnston, said his agency thought the idea was intriguing and was looking into it.
Don Garber, the commissioner of Major League Soccer, for which Mr. Smalls worked for six years, has said he will provide marketing and perhaps financial support.
In the meantime, Mr. Smalls sometimes has his team spend a few minutes on a handball court near the field where it practices. “You have to have good control, because it’s a small space,” said Marqui Moore, one of the players. “It helps you learn your footwork.”
The City :Harlem
A Proposal for Mini-Spaces: Mini-Soccer
By ALEX MINDLIN Published: May 13, 2007
West Harlem is swarming with real estate speculators these days, so a worldly bystander might not have been surprised to see Irv Smalls Jr. looking covetously the other day at a trash-strewn lot on 114th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard.
But Mr. Smalls, a 34-year-old former Penn State football player, was not imagining river views or calculating square footage. “To me,” he said, “that’s a futsal field. That’s perfect. Please.”
Futsal is a compact, five-on-five form of soccer, invented in Uruguay in 1930 and popular around the world, especially as a training sport for young players. But for Mr. Smalls, who is now the executive director of a youth soccer club called FC Harlem Academy, its selling point is that the sport and its variants can be played on small concrete surfaces — for example, on a patch of bare cement at the edge of Taft Houses, a public housing project, which he had surveyed with delight that afternoon.
At other points in the day, Mr. Smalls had similar reactions to a brace of handball courts and to a fenced-in strip beneath a stretch of Metro-North tracks over Park Avenue, studded with widely spaced concrete pillars. “The fields could be between the pillars,” he announced happily.
Armed with photographs of such corners throughout Harlem, Mr. Smalls has begun seeking permission from the city and support from donors for a plan he calls Concrete2Green. He would like to lay rubberized mats, painted with futsal lines. over such areas around the neighborhood. He envisions a culture of gritty pickup street soccer, much like the culture that exists around basketball.
“In the rest of the world, soccer is an inner-city sport,” Mr. Smalls said. “I want to work on this perception that it’s a white sport in this country, and played only out in the suburbs.”
On May 4, Mr. Smalls met with officials at the Parks Department; a department spokesman, Warner Johnston, said his agency thought the idea was intriguing and was looking into it.
Don Garber, the commissioner of Major League Soccer, for which Mr. Smalls worked for six years, has said he will provide marketing and perhaps financial support.
In the meantime, Mr. Smalls sometimes has his team spend a few minutes on a handball court near the field where it practices. “You have to have good control, because it’s a small space,” said Marqui Moore, one of the players. “It helps you learn your footwork.”
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