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ACROSS THE US-MEXICO BORDER, FOOTBALL CONTINUES SHOUTING
THE SAME MESSAGE.
THE SAME MESSAGE.
Crossing the U.S.– Mexico border to photograph San Diego FC’s debut against Pumas UNAM, Tijuana-based photographer Alejandro Gutiérrez Mora finds football unfolding against a backdrop of heightened immigration tension and political unease. Inside and outside Snapdragon Stadium, chants, protest banners, and shared emotion blur lines of nationality, revealing how football culture, activism, and identity collide in San Diego. The match becomes secondary to what truly matters: a reminder that even in moments of division, football still creates space for collective voice and belonging.
INTRODUCING: SUSANA FERREIRA
Susana Ferreira, Football Case Study’s newest member, steps into her first FCS interview reflecting on football as both an emotional language and a documentary space, tracing how the game has shaped her creative path and the way she connects with people across cultures. In conversation, she explores the responsibility of storytelling, the power of observation, and how football can reveal identities that often live just outside the frame of mainstream narratives.
As she begins her journey within FCS, Susana’s perspective moves fluidly between personal experience and professional practice — documenting the game not just as sport, but as a living social landscape. The interview introduces a storyteller grounded in people-first narratives, using football as a gateway into community, memory, and shared human experience.
NO ROOM FOR RACISM: PREMIER LEAGUE X FCS
SCOTT GROULT’S SENEGAL
GLOBAL STORIES
FROM WORLD’S FAIR TO WORLD’S GAME
THE MAYOR AND THE MANAGER
VOICES OF THE MEDINA
IN DEFENSE OF AIDA’S PITCH
EDITORS CHOICE
COMMUNAL OVENS AND SHARED SPACES: THE POWER OF ACCESSIBILITY AT WAFCON
In Morocco, communal ovens known as furans serve as more than just places to bake—they are social spaces that nourish both body and community. From low-cost tickets and free transportation to women attending their first-ever matches, the tournament embraced inclusion across generations. Whether in a Casablanca bakery or Rabat stadium, these public spaces demonstrated how openness, generosity, and cultural values can elevate women’s football and strengthen community ties through shared experience.
AT MONTJUÏC, PALESTINE FOUND HOME FOR AN EVENING
More than 30,000 people gathered on a Tuesday night in Montjuïc, Barcelona, for a match between Catalonia and Palestine at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. It wasn’t a final, nor an official fixture, yet nothing about the atmosphere felt routine. In this dispatch from Sports Journalist Leyla Hamed, we’re brought into the stands that transformed into a space where football shared its spotlight with grief, solidarity and a sense of collective presence.
A FOOTBALL JOURNALIST TRAVELED TO ALGERIA TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH.
NOW HE FACES SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON.
On a rain-soaked night in Nantes, a mother’s voice breaks into a Coupe de France broadcast, revealing the imprisonment of sports journalist Christophe Gleizes in Algeria. This piece follows a football journey into Kabylie that becomes inseparable from questions of power, identity, and repression, tracing how reporting on a historic club led Gleizes from the stands to a seven-year sentence. Moving between matchday atmospheres and political reality, it asks what it truly means to understand the world through football—and what it costs those who try.
AS A NEW CLUB CLOSES IN,
SAN FRANCISCO CITY FC FIGHTS FOR PLACE IN THE COMMUNITY
Kezar Stadium in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park has recently been made the grounds for a dispute between USL League Two team San Francisco City FC and Golden City FC, an in-development MLS NEXT Pro team being backed by the Mayor, the city and tech investors. As the new club makes its way into town and treads on SF City’s home stadium, Fay Harvey shines a light on how the community feels and what can be learned from clubs of the past.
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