Soccer Networking Group Is Good For Business
Many South Tampa professionals have found a networking home with the Knock It Around Network, a group that stages soccer games at unorthodox times of day.
For most people, 5:30 a.m. is a time that is spent lying in bed. For a group of Tampa soccer enthusiasts, it’s time spent sprinting up and down the basketball courts of the Interbay Glover YMCA – at least on Tuesday and Thurday mornings. Dubbed the Knock It Around Network, the gathering was initiated by Luke Cardillo, a Coldwell Bank real estate agent whose offices are in Hyde Park. He formed the group in 2007 to bring together business professionals with a common passion, soccer. “A good friend of mine and I were hanging out at MacDinton's for Champions League games in 2007 when the real estate market was really slow,” Cardillo said. "We would send messages to friends to join us, but everyone would always have to work. So we thought of …
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