Randall’s Island is a soccer island. Anyone involved in amateur or youth soccer in New York City is likely to have been at one of the more than 30 fields found there and at adjacent Wards Island at some point, whether playing, coaching, refereeing, volunteering, or supporting. New York City is starved for open space and playing fields, and Randall’s Island provides both in abundance.
It can be a surprise to see so much soccer in one place, especially in a city where other sports dominate the headlines, with two teams in each of the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB, but Randalls Island is full of it.