Calle Street Soccer

For school I'm doing a consulting project--my group chose to do the project for a company called Calle. It's an up-and-coming soccer apparel company that specializes in street soccer. Steve Magleby, a friend that grew up in Maryland with me, helped start it and works there with a few other guys. It's an interesting idea and it looks like it has some potential. Their goal is to be the Quicksilver for soccer. They mainly sell clothes, but their first product was actually a unique street soccer ball that they created because apparently no one in the States wants to use their own ball in the streets or parking lots because they get trashed. The ball they created can withstand the hard surfaces and the abuse a lot better.

The idea came when one of the guys was living outside the country and was playing street soccer with some kids and saw the skills that they had. He realized that in the USA we don't get those same skills playing soccer on larger fields with normal teams. You have to learn to play against people in 1 on 1 situations. At least that's what I gathered from meeting and talking with them!

Anyways, they sell some cool stuff. Check out their website at:

www.callesoccer.com