Playing in peace. Evolving through play.

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Evolution of Soccer?

We show you how soccer can be a safe and peaceful space, where we learn by playing, in community.

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Fut Infinito EVENTS

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

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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 "maximal support, minimal interference" 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.

Instead of trophies or punishments, we use badges that recognize honesty, camaraderie, and perseverance. This broadens the range of who can be seen and valued in this space.

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

"I care for myself, I care for you and we care for each other" - 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.
Mistakes are not punished: they are met with curiosity. Difficult behaviors are not a lack of will, but skills that haven't been learned yet. We ask "what does this person need?" instead of "what's wrong with them?"

We understand that learning happens in the nervous system. We use Polyvagal Theory to know whether a player is in a state of safety and connection (where learning happens), in a state of defense (fight/flight), or in collapse (disconnection). Our job as facilitators is to activate the neuroception of safety — through a calm voice, predictable routines, and our own self-regulation — so that the body knows there is no threat here, only play.

The Nervous System: the map of how we learn and connect

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

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Rubén Darío Alvarado - Xalapa

Seeds - Xalapa

Topos FC Puebla – Fucho Para Ciegos Puebla AC

Crecer verde - Playa del Carmen

La Caracola Permacultura - Bacalar

El mangle - Santa Cruz

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.

COURSE: HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD ATHLETE IN A HEALTHY WAY?

We are preparing a course on how to support your children who play sports, so that their athletic experience becomes a joy for them, for you, and for the whole family. In this course, you will learn ideas and practices that will help you understand how to build a healthy, harmonious relationship with them — where sports become a way to connect and grow closer, rather than generating conflicts or traumas that do nothing for their development.

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Fut Infinito SERVICES

Fut Infinito Training

Aimed at sports coaches, staff of partner organizations, physical education teachers, and change agents.

Fut Infinito Certification

Do you want to integrate Fut Infinito's philosophy and practice into your sports team, school, club, or neighborhood?

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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.

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

Mexico Team: Chivas

World Team: Real Madrid

Favorite Male Player: El Bicho (Suuuuu)

Favorite Female Player: Marta

I enjoy soccer more when it's about playing and hanging out, but when I was little I rooted for Cruz Azul, and I have a cousin (Montse Montes) who plays as a forward in Iceland!

María Isabel Noriega Armella

Edgar Gainko

Passionate about education in non-conventional contexts, practitioner of agroecology. The joy of playing soccer started for me in 2023, and when I began to co-sustain and facilitate Fut Infinito with the community of girls and boys in Rancho Viejo, I remembered my days as a mountaineering instructor. I greatly enjoy feeling my heart in my whole body, because when we play, we run and fill ourselves with energy-joy, and also because we connect as people through creativity, surprise, care, camaraderie, and compassion.

Facilitator of collective and community processes, self-directed learning processes, project development advisor, and facilitator trainer. Specialized in participatory practices and tools such as: Agile Learning Model, Art of Hosting, Dragon Dreaming, Nonviolent Communication, Liberating Structures. Founder of the Educambiando ALC project, Executive Director and Legal Representative of Comunidades Ágiles de México A.C. He is also an active member of the Transition Movement Mexico node and is part of the facilitator and trainer team at Transition Network International, as well as the facilitator team for the Abya Yala territory (Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina). He is passionate about soccer and an athlete at heart. He collaborates with Fut Infinito, facilitating in the community in Rancho Viejo.

I'd rather play than be a fan of any team! Although, if I had to choose, it would be between Pumas or Chivas.

I don't have favorite teams or players, but I'm increasingly interested in watching matches, because I'm starting to see and understand what I didn't see before... Maybe one day I'll tell you which teams and players have won my heart.

I am a woman, a mother, and passionate about learning processes and conscious parenting. As a Facilitator and Facilitator Trainer within the Agile Learning model, I dedicate my energy to transforming education and supporting families in their parenting journeys. Throughout my career, I have focused my experience on driving collective projects:
Founder of Educambiando.
Active member of Comunidades Ágiles de México.
Pedagogical advisor for emerging learning communities, guiding them in their structure and development.
I love creating harmonious, collaborative spaces, which is why I enjoy supporting Fut Infinito, a sport that aligns with my values by promoting a culture of peace.

María González

Personally, I'm not as big a soccer fan as I used to be, but my favorite team was Pumas, and I admired Cristiano Ronaldo.

Shankai Ruiz González

I'm 14 years old, and my way of living and learning is a little different from the conventional one: I've never been to a traditional school. Instead, I manage my education through the Agile Learning model, which allows me to be the owner of my own path, learn at my own pace, and focus on what I'm truly passionate about.
Photography is my main field of study right now. I love exploring the world through the lens and learning to tell stories visually.
Exercise is a fundamental part of my daily life — I really enjoy staying active and on the move. That's why Fut Infinito is the sport I practice. What I like most is that it's a non-competitive game. Just like the Agile Learning model, Fut Infinito promotes a culture of peace, where the important things are collaboration, respect, and sharing with others — not stepping over anyone.

I enjoy learning with autonomy, expressing myself through art, and being in environments where peace is lived and built.

Xalapa and everywhere else since 1992, inhabiting this body.
A professional fun player for as long as she can remember. Ninja game specialist since 2011; expert in chinazo and lotería cantada since 1999. She discovered Rumí in 2000 thanks to a very special inheritance: a handmade game crafted by her great-grandfather. She currently explores and reinvents Phase 10, creating new rules and possibilities. She has adopted rock-paper-scissors as a practical philosophy for making decisions and building agreements. She is also passionate about the yellow Vocho game, to which she has added challenges for all colors.
Practitioner of Slackline, Fut Infinito, and the ALC agile learning model. A lover of games, movement, and experiences that remind us that learning can be an adventure.
She loves deeply. She feels sensitive and powerful. She listens with her heart and tries to breathe before speaking. She enjoys moving her body, dancing salsa, or any rhythm that comes up. In recent years, she has found in movement a form of expression, exploration, and self-discovery.
She eats a plant-based diet and seeks to live in coherence with caring for life and the Earth. She currently shares the Extraocular Vision methodology with children and adults, accompanying processes of discovery, trust, and expansion of human capacities.
She is the creator of Guanábana, a clothing brand focused on upcycling and the creative transformation of garments. She also creates content related to ecology, creativity, and sustainable lifestyles.
A full-time actress on the great stage of life. Since 2016, she writes, directs, and performs stories and theatrical experiences that explore human consciousness, imagination, and personal transformation.
She deeply believes in play as a tool for learning, connecting, and remembering who we are.

Vivi Guerra

Mexico Team: Necaxa

World Team: Real Madrid

Favorite Male Player: El Matador

Favorite Female Player: Marigol

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? 🤨

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