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film about a former player turned sporting director, a coach and a team of diverse football players given the mission to create a professional soccer team from scratch in New York City.

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FC, an English club with ambitions to spread a style of “beautiful” football around the globe, joined up with the

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and handed the job of Sporting Director of New York City FC to

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, former captain of the US National team. When Reyna selected Jason Kreis as the team's first coach, a race began to find players in the months before the inaugural season. Global soccer stars like

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and

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join a growing squad of American rising stars, to face the highs and lows, joys and sacrifices, disappointments and triumphs of the first season. Playing in front of their home fans in

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, at a time when soccer has never been more popular in the US, they fight to win the hearts of New Yorkers. The film had its World Premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.

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2016 films 2016 documentary films Documentary films about association football American association football films American sports documentary films New York City FC Films shot in New York City Films set in the Bronx 2010s American films {{sport-documentary-film-stub