After eating my way through part of the the Pakistani neighborhood on Coney Island Avenue in Midwood, Brooklyn, a couple weeks ago, I was curious to explore the nearby Bangladeshi part of Kensington.

Bangladeshi village football coach Mofiz Uddin only decided to form a girls' team in 2011 out of frustration at the local boys' failure to bring home any trophies. Less than five years on, his young ...