Why have portable soccer goal frames?

When starting a fledgling youth soccer league in a previous hometown, my team and league shared a field with the local youth football league.  The football league was well established and was not eager to share its field with a soccer league.  This was a small town with limited space for athletic fields and even more limited budget.  The modern multi-field soccer complexes had not become popular back in the 1970s. 


A major point of conflict was the soccer goal frame.  A soccer goal frame and a football goal post are not compatible.  The soccer goal frame is much wider and the crossbar is two feet lower than the football goalpost.  My solution at that time was to build goal frames that could be moved.  The football goalposts I was dealing with were merely straight steel pipes set on the back line of the end zone rather than the curved "gooseneck" seen on modern college and professional football fields.  The soccer goal frames I was able to obtain were also made of straight pipe (6" NPS).  As you can imagine, these frames were quite heavy.  Frequent movement of the soccer goal frames was required and that got old in a hurry.  Finally, at the end of the season, I was told to remove the goals from the field.  Handling a 24-foot crossbar made of 6" pipe was not easy and storage also presented a problem.


A modern lightweight portable soccer goal frame would have been a lifesaver (make that back saver).  Additionally, the pipes I had were round (as pipes tend to be) rather than having a 6" flat face specified in soccer rules.