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PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> – On Monday nights on the fields off of Bigler Street in South Philadelphia, Casa Soccer League hosts its “Neighborhood Cup”, a play on the World Cup, for the fourth straight summer.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “Just two teams left at the end\u2026battling it out for whoever is the best neighborhood in and around Philly,” explained Kristin Lepley, player and Casa Community Experience Director.<\/p>\n Next season, these matches will\u00a0be played as the FIFA World Cup is happening right next door at Lincoln Financial Field. \u00a0<\/p>\n Lepley says the momentum is here.<\/p>\n “Everyone has it. \u00a0Everyone feels it, even if you\u2019re not a soccer organization. \u00a0You want to get into soccer at this time.”<\/p>\n The “Neighborhood Cup” is one of several programs that Casa Soccer League offers. \u00a0<\/p>\n Casa is the largest adult soccer league in the Northeast.<\/p>\n Casa is in its 20th year.\u00a0<\/p>\n While it\u00a0started with just 200 players, it now has 200 teams with 20,000 active members in Philly, Lancaster and Boston.<\/p>\n All are welcome regardless of age, gender or skill level. \u00a0Evan Duncan, a player and board member, joined the league 8 years ago. \u00a0<\/p>\n He says it\u2019s about more than soccer. “For me, it was finding a sense of community when I was really longing for it,” said Duncan. \u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s a place where opponents on the pitch have become friends off the pitch, bonding over a shared passion for play. \u00a0<\/p>\n “With the World Cup coming here, you can just see the passion for soccer growing,” said Lepley.<\/p>\n “A lot of things are happening next year: the 250th anniversary, the MLB all star game, the World Cup is the highlight, absolutely the highlight,” Duncan added.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a major highlight in our own backyard.<\/p>\n “I think Philly is gonna do it huge next year,” said Lepley. \u00a0<\/p>\n Sports<\/a>Philadelphia<\/a>News<\/a>FIFA World Cup<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – On Monday nights on the fields off of Bigler Street in South Philadelphia, Casa Soccer League…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,50,1448,2830,1311,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,21490],"class_list":{"0":"post-119850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114974058386675781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}