System Failure FC @SystemFailureFC
Tearing down the performance-industrial complex in youth soccer. Relationism | Player-first | Written by João da Folha. Burn the shape. Keep the soul systemfailurefc.substack.com Joined May 2025-
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New Substack article What if soccer in the U.S. was never meant to be? What if all our coaching, our curriculum tweaks, our talent ID pipelines—are just distractions from a deeper truth: You can’t grow a collective game in an individualist society. Neoliberalism kills what…
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When we lost to Trinidad & Tobago in 2017, in the middle of the disappointment I actually thought—fuck it, maybe this is what we needed. Maybe now the power shifts and real change begins. I’ve never been so wrong. Everything since has just been lipstick on a fucking pig. Eight…
Today, I have no solutions. No optimism. Just disgust. MLS has done nothing to close the gap between us and the world. And US Soccer continues to let parasitic forces loot our youth system unchecked. We are not serious. We never were. #USMNT #USSoccer #MLS #YouthSoccer…
We’re a year away from what should be the greatest sporting moment of a generation. Instead of cementing ourselves as a true soccer nation, 2026 is shaping up to be a global showcase of how little we learned from missing the 2018 World Cup—and how unwilling we’ve been to truly…
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