Next Goal Wins

Using the familiar tropes of the feelgood sports film, Next Goal Wins gently challenges Western social priorities, and affirms gender nonconformity, from a Pasifika perspective.

American Samoa coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) talks with faʻafafine player Jaiyah Saelua (Kaimana) in Next Goal Wins (Searchlight Pictures).

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