Kyle Martino’s Football Cafe hides behind an unmarked door on Chrystie Street.
‘s Football Cafe, a soccer speakeasy created by the former MLS player and broadcaster — has hosted over 3,000 fans including celebrities like comedian Andrew Schulz, “Billions” actor Fisher Stevens, Steve Nash and his former mother-in-law Susan Sarandon, who is an investor.
On the first floor there’s a DJ, a merchandise stand selling from independent designers and a massive screen playing the games, while upstairs houses a long bar, a handful of televisions and space with Persian rugs and a hodge-podge of couches and chairs that feels like your quirky, well-to-do friend’s living room.
, which now has 8,200 followers, could text a 917 number to get past the doorman. Then as word spread and fans knocked on the unmarked door, things got a little easier.The entrepreneur plans to eventually turn the space into a private club revolving around soccer, art and culture.“I’ve always wanted a SoHo House for soccer — I’ve been waiting for someone else to do it, and no one was,” Martino, a Soho House member, said. “I’m an impatient person, so I went for it.
“It was a vacant building no one had been in for years, and he was storing avocados there. The place was graffitied and there was a hole in the roof.”
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