Fut Infinito EVENTS

Find out here about Fut Infinito events. We regularly organize training sessions, workshops, camps, game afternoons, and pick-up games!

Fut Infinito Immersion | Summer 2024

Xalapa, Veracruz

Fut Infinito DNA

In conventional soccer, innovations focus on increasing performance, entertainment, spectacle, and profit margins. In this sports model, we challenge the myths that shape sports currently, which separate and polarize. In Fut Infinito, we play to enjoy and to unite.

Self-direction

Players participate in their own evolution. They make their own decisions about what they want to experience, improve, and discover in their practice, with the close support of FI facilitators. A player who understands play, and not just executes it by the coach's instructions, has a more integral experience of playing.

Play Based Evolution

We leave behind rewards and punishments (external motivation). Love for playing (internal motivation) and enjoyment become the most powerful elements for the evolution of our players.

Community creation

Our players belong to a safe space where support, care, and affection are non-negotiable. A healthy culture of common unity that allows them to connect with themselves and their peers to create meaningful experiences.

Competition as an act of service

My rival is not my enemy. We compete to become competent, to evolve, in opposition, but together. We care for and respect our rivals because thanks to them, we can play, enjoy, and grow.

Safe space

People first, before players. In Fut Infinito spaces, there's no room for discrimination, bullying, or any kind of violence. Conventional soccer has normalized violence as a mode of interaction; here, we leave that behind and play in peace.

Fut Infinito COMMUNITIES

The main task of our Fut Infinito facilitators is to create safe, enjoyable, and peaceful spaces for our communities. They all focus on building relationships of respect and care with our players. In their work, there is no room for violence, mockery, punishment, or any action that goes against the integrity of the members of our community. Likewise, they have the ability to support them in developing their talent and soccer potential, thanks to their experience in the world of soccer.

Fut Infinito Facilitators

Model

Soccer Lab

People create their experience from their own intentions. FI facilitators support them in those intentions. For example, someone may be interested in improving their speed, others may want to play a fut-tennis tournament, others may want to see how many pull-ups they can do, and others may want to have a match with their friends. No intention is considered less or discredited. For this reason, training sessions can take many forms and are not necessarily seen as conventional workouts.

Sports Team

For those who intend to participate in sports competitions. In this space, the FI facilitator designs training dynamics with a focus on the technical, tactical, physical, and psychoemotional evolution of the players. However, the result in competitions is less important than the quality and integrity of our processes. We want our teams, rather than winning at all costs, to enjoy, discover, and develop in peace.

Directory of communities

Xalapa, Veracruz - Rubén Darío Alvarado

Fut Infinito MOMS & DADS (MoDas)

At Fut Infinito, our moms and dads (MoDas) are an essential part of the community. We recognize and appreciate the work they do in raising their daughters and sons and the vital role they play in their learning. We create spaces where they can enjoy, learn, and collaborate with them.

Fut Infinito SERVICES

1-on-1 training or small groups

For those who want to achieve excellence in play, discovering their talents while enjoying playing and learning about themselves and the sport.

Fut Infinito Communities

Train with us!

Find a community/facilitator near you.

Coaching / Mentoring for new & existing teams

Do you want to integrate the philosophy and practice of Fut Infinito into your sports team? Do you want to create a new Fut Infinito team in your school, neighborhood, or with your family and friends?

Training for coaches

Do you work as a sports coach and want to integrate Fut Infinito's philosophy into your practice?

Fut Infinito DREAM TEAM

Meet the team that created and holds Fut Infinito

Rubén Darío “Profe Puyol”

Soccer man

Gabo Azul

Rubén Darío Alvarado, known in the soccer world as Profe Puyol, has played soccer since he could stand on his own feet and has worked as a sports coach since 2009, in numerous and diverse sports communities around the world. Starting at his beloved Unidad Deportiva Universitaria in Xalapa, and jumping from the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania to the hilltops of the Barrios in Medellín, passing through the temples of Phnom Penh. After learning about the Agile Learning model and Sports for Social Impact, he dedicated each of his travels to trying to create spaces of Peace in sports, through play.

Gabo Azul is a transmasculine multi-instrumentalist musician, originally from Xalapa but based in Mérida. He began playing music from a young age, trained as a percussionist at Universidad Veracruzana and taught himself to sing and play the guitar. He became involved with the Agile Learning model and has since been striving to build relationships and spaces that promote empathy, vulnerability, authenticity, trust, and peace. He collaborates with Fut Infinito remotely, from "the bench," building and holding virtual spaces (social networks, website) and, when possible, playing with the girls and boys.

Mexico Team: Chivas

World Team: Real Madrid

Favorite Male Player: El Bicho (Suuuuu)

Favorite Female Player: Marta

Mexico Team: Cruz Azul

World Team: Manchester United

Favorite Male Player: Kaká

Favorite Female Player: Montse Montes

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

I want my son/daughter to be a professional. Can you help with that?

While we understand that for some families, it's important for their children to excel in sports, for the FI team, the player's well-being is more important. We will not force any player just because their families want them to achieve a certain performance level. However, if within the player's intentions there is a desire to reach high levels of performance, we are trained and capable of accompanying them as high and deep as they wish to go in their practice.

Can my son/daughter attend training if they are a beginner?

Sure thing! In any of the formats (1-on-1, Laboratory, or Sports Team), we welcome anyone regardless of their previous experience.

Are you teaching them to be mediocre and losers?

In soccer, there are many dimensions of value, regardless of who scores the most goals. Making new friends, transcending our limitations, self-discovery and health through play, learning to regulate our emotions, collaborating with our team, visualizing desired futures... None of that has to do with who wins on the scoreboard. Mediocrity means staying halfway, like conventional soccer, which sees players before people, a half-hearted perspective. We prioritize the health of individuals over results.

But how will they learn if you don't reward, punish, or scold them?

Human beings learn all the time and naturally, and while rewards and punishments work to shape behavior, they have harmful results. For example, people may do things to avoid punishment or for the reward, instead of doing it for the joy and value of the experience itself. We want our players to find motivation from their autonomy and not from external stimuli. Play proves to be a great vehicle for learning!

Do you play in tournaments?

Yes, whoever wants to.

Can girls attend?

Of course, why wouldn't they be able to? 🤨

Can my child attend both the Soccer Lab and the Sports Team?

Yes! Enjoy the discounts available for people who want both experiences.