Kyle Martino lost the election to become president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, but American Soccer may still benefit from his leadership and entrepreneurship.
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Kyle Martino left his dream job in 2018 to run for president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, the official governing body of American soccer. To Martino, the federation was at an inflection point. The men's national team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, a stunning result which led to the incumbent federation president declining to run for reelection.
Martino, a former MLS and U.S. men's national team player and current studio analyst for NBC Sports covering the English Premier League, launched a presidential bid focused on the grassroots of U.S. soccer. "I made a crazy decision to leave my dream job [at NBC] and go for it," Martino says. Leading up to the election, Martino met with state soccer associations across the country and identified issues that became central to his campaign.
Martino's latest project implements his"Over/Under Initiative," which seeks to turn inner-city basketball courts into dual-sport spaces by installing permanent soccer goals under basketball hoops. Martino spent eight months with a top sports equipment engineer designing Goalpher, a patent-pending, black and bright-yellow soccer goal that, when not in use, stores easily and quickly into the surface under a hoop.
Since returning to NBC, Martino has put elements of his progress plan to work through a series of interconnected projects which aim to make the sport more accessible, inclusive, and fun for everyone. While Street FC and Goalpher demonstrate Martino's entrepreneurial abilities, each project has philanthropic ambitions as well, as Martino plans to contribute revenue from Street FC and Goalpher towards SSUSA programming.
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