BROOKLYN, N.Y. – If Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams had his way, the New York Cosmos would be calling Coney Island their home.

Speaking to Empire of Soccer at a press conference promoting this Saturday’s Cosmos encounter in Coney Island’s MCU Park, Adams made no bones about his desire to lure the NASL side to his borough.

“I would love to have a team here in Brooklyn,” Adams said. “Soccer has grown over the years. Some of the experiments decades ago may have failed because we didn’t have the population. We were smart this time, starting children playing at an early age and they have grown up playing soccer.

“Soccer is no longer a strange sport only played in foreign lands. It has a domestic appeal.”

In fact, Adams thinks the Cosmos would be a perfect fixture for the very place they will visit this weekend — Coney Island.

“There are still parcels of land we can build out in the Coney Island area that can hold a soccer team,” he explained. “We are looking to make Coney Island a year long destination and this can be a great start to that.”

Adams says there have been “many discussions” about bringing the team to Brooklyn. “This [Saturday’s match] can be a great way to take it to the next level,” he said.

As Adams points out, the demographics of his borough are made for the global sport. One in five Brooklynites are Hispanic, Spanish and Latino based. Further, a young generation of “hipsters” have taken on the sport of soccer as their own, crowding busy bars and markets for matches on a weekly basis.

Those numbers are not lost on the Cosmos. While the team continues to push for approval on their “Elmont Crossing” bid — a New York State RFP meant to revitalize the downtrodden Elmont area with a 25,000 seat soccer stadium at the heart of the project — they have also revealed their initiative to look for other suitable locations in case their proposal falls through.

This Saturday serves as a social experiment that can sway the team away from their Nassau County roots.

“We are committed to being able to build a stadium. The borough that makes that happen is the one we will decide to be,” declared Cosmos’ coach Giovanni Savarese. “Brooklyn is welcoming us here. We do have a project. We have to wait for the right procedure. You are all aware of what we have done so far. We have to first understand that part [of the deal], but the team is ready to have a stadium.”

“[Soccer] will continue to grow if we bring a sports team [to Brooklyn] that young people can look on TV and see their players and wear their jerseys,” Adams adds. “That is a great way of growing it here.”