Nonprofit sports facility offers club soccer to kids in Chicago
CHICAGO – Just over a year ago, former Chicago Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward and many others helped open a new sports facility on the city's West Side.Many of its programs are taking off in year two.Intentional Sports is a nonprofit organization that opened in the North Austin community last February with the backing of Heyward and the Chicago Fire.Since then, the 10-acre, $31 million training facility has seen growth for several of its programs. Soccer is one of its fastest-growing clubs.
'I feel like they teach me good things, like my other coaches, they teach us new things every day too,' said 8-year-old Delilah Martinez.Garcia added, 'I'm very thankful for having Bardia and coach Alex, and now we joined Mackenzie, so we have a really good staff, but I think we can build something truly special where we could help produce not only good soccer players, but I think produce good student athletes and overall good human beings.
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