Wisconsin Life

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Yes, good work, fellas! Yes! My name is Denzel Pettigrew. I'm the coach and owner of Brew City Legends FC, the newest pro indoor team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Yep, let's talk, okay?

blows whistle

Indoor soccer is very different than outdoor. It's a different style. You have to be in tip-top shape. More of play like a hockey-style, up and down, up and down, getting your shifts in, quick play, quick combinations, and just gettin' a lot of shots off. We play in the Premier Arena Soccer League against Cincinnati Swerve, Chicago Mustangs, Detroit Waza. I feel like we have the hardest division, the best division, to be honest with you. Last year, the division champs, and now we're trying to repeat.

Agustin Rey

So, there's a big statement to make this year, you know. This is a great program. The team, the atmosphere is awesome.

The coach

man, couldn't ask for more genuine guy. That's what I wanna see, got some big team.

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The coach

Who's on the keeper? It's impressive for one guy to kinda take it all on his shoulders and start something pretty much from nothing and grow it already after a couple years into what it is now.

Denzel

Been playin' soccer since I was seven. Seora

Pettigrew

Soccer took him all over the world and it still does.

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Pettigrew

He came home one day and said, "Mom, I wanna own my own." And I'm like, "What do you mean?" He was like, "Mom, I think I can do this." He said, "I've been all over the world "studying from everyone. I wanna try it." If it was somethin' I loved, my mom always told me to go after it. She keeps me motivated, she keeps me going every day. She pushes me. It's an awesome lady right there. There's not a lot of African Americans I feel like, growin' up, was in that sport. I am the first African American soccer owner in the PASL. Let's go!

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Pettigrew

It's a blessing that I am the first one, but color factor doesn't matter. It's just me just doin' what I love at the end of the day. We have all different type of nationalities on this team, and I like it that way.

To team

Every time you talkin'... We all get along. It's a family, it's a brotherhood here, and they all play for each other. Great practice, lookin' good. One, two,

three. - All in unison

Legends!

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