NY’s Bravest and Finest will each play a game against the Ukrainian National team in Brooklyn.
The FDNY and NYPD will face players from the war-torn country across a two-game set on Oct. 14 and Oct. 15 at Maimonides Park, the home of Mets minor league affiliate Brooklyn Cyclones.Proceeds from the event to an organization titled “Go to Bat for Ukraine” to rebuild Ukraine’s youth sports facilities and fields destroyed in the war.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams held a press conference on Tuesday outside City Hall welcoming the Ukrainian team to the Big Apple. “This team behind us has shown the resiliency of what it is to continue to push forward, despite all that you are facing,” Adams said. “This is about sports. Sports has a way of uniting a country, a way of highlighting what a country is going through.”