About Solstice FC

Solstice FC is built by a San Diego dad who watched his kid fall in love with soccer — and then watched the system around it prioritize revenue over development, exclusivity over access, and results over growth.

The US youth soccer landscape is fragmented, expensive, and structurally misaligned with how the rest of the world develops players. Pay-to-play is the norm. Coaching quality is inconsistent. Player development pathways are opaque. The kids who make it through often do so despite the system, not because of it.

The Influence

This project is heavily influenced by Mickaël Correia's A People's History of Soccer — a book that reframes the sport through the lens of community, class, and resistance. Soccer has always been a people's game. The infrastructure should reflect that.

The Method

Rather than starting with opinions and working backward to justify them, Solstice FC starts with structured debate. Thirteen rounds of AI agent debates stress-tested every major architectural decision: Should the club be a nonprofit or LLC? How should coaching be compensated? What data should we collect on players, and who owns it?

The outputs of those debates became the spec. The spec becomes the club. Everything is published openly so others can fork it, critique it, or build on it.

Built in Public

Every decision is documented. Every tradeoff is visible. This isn't a pitch deck — it's a workshop. The site itself is part of the process: showing the work, not just the output.