Summer vacations are here, and even though May  promises to get only hotter, it barely stops sports enthusiasts from stepping out with their gear. But in the fast life of Mumbai, it usually is not possible to gather all of your friends in the same place and at the same time; and for a sport like football, you need numbers.

Kasa Kai Mumbai, an event-based community, looks into this problem. It brings football enthusiasts together from around the city every day. “As a footballer, it was tough to pursue the sport when I was growing up. There was barely any space to play in the city,” says Chirag Das, the platform’s community manager. And now that there are turfs, there is a difficulty of finding football players. In 2019, the team started organising football matches across turfs. The overwhelming response led them to press play after a long pause during the lockdown.