I founded the Big City Football organization in 2005 because I did not like the culture of the local youth football programs. It began as a summer camp for youth ages 8-14. Parents liked what we were doing and asked if we would expand into teams and a league. I had no plan to go this far, but I had a vision of what this could become and began the process of building. I needed a field and there was an abandoned playground in the northeast area of Detroit where I planned to

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