The New York Kick was a professional
indoor soccer
Indoor soccer or arena soccer (known internationally as indoor football, fast football, or showball) is five-a-side version of minifootball, derived from association football and adapted to be played in walled hardcourt indoor arena. Indoor so ...
team based in
Albany, New York
Albany ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of New York, also the seat and largest city of Albany County. Albany is on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River, and about north of New York Ci ...
playing at the
Knickerbocker Arena
The MVP Arena (originally Knickerbocker Arena, and then the Pepsi Arena and Times Union Center) is an indoor arena located in Albany, New York. It is configurable and can accommodate from 6,000 to 17,500 people, with a maximum seating capacity ...
and competed in the
National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001)
The National Professional Soccer League was a professional indoor soccer league in the US and Canada. It was originally called the American Indoor Soccer Association.
History
In November 1983, a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based group called Soccer Le ...
.
The team was previously known as the Indiana Kick in 1989–90. The Indiana Kick played their games at the
Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13,000-seat multi-purpose arena located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, near present-day Johnny Appleseed Park. It opened in 1952 with a construction cost of nearly $3 million. The Allen County War Memorial Colis ...
in
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Censu ...
. The Kick were created under the ownership of Kent Phillips after the
Fort Wayne Flames folded following the 1988–89 season.
Coaches
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Warren Lipka (1989–90)
Year-by-year
See also
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History of sports in Fort Wayne, Indiana
References
Sports in Albany, New York
Kick
A kick is a physical strike using the leg, in unison usually with an area of the knee or lower using the foot, heel, tibia (shin), ball of the foot, blade of the foot, toes or knee (the latter is also known as a knee strike). This type of a ...
Defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States
American Indoor Soccer Association teams
Association football clubs established in 1989
Association football clubs disestablished in 1991
1989 establishments in Indiana
1991 disestablishments in New York (state)
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