Adi Talwar
On a sunny afternoon in late April the NY Ukrainians played SC Eintracht (in white) in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. The NY Ukraians won the Cosmopolitan league’s Division 2 match 5-1.
The Ukrainian Sports Club was founded in 1947 as tens of thousand of Ukrainian migrants settled in New York. Today, the team competes in the historic Cosmopolitan Soccer League and continues to serve a special function for generations of immigrants.
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