Five-a-side is the future




Dummy: Interviews with smart people about soccer show

Summary: I grew up in Tampa and played 11-a-side club soccer very seriously from as early as I can remember to age 18, which is also when I moved away. When I moved back last year, I started playing at a place called Cinco Soccer, which has outdoor turf fields designed for five-a-side soccer with a futsal ball. Now, I had played small-sided soccer on turf when I lived in New York, and I’ve played futsal on hardwood basketball courts in lots of places, but Cinco married these two things in a really interesting way. (Plus, it has a liquor license, so I can get a $2 beer after the game.) Today on Dummy I speak with Keith Rados, who built Cinco from scratch, about what it's like to run the place and why he thinks it has become so popular in the Tampa soccer scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices