Trevor Noah's Day Zero Productions, Wavelength, and Foolish Club Studios Greenlight Kansas City-Based Unscripted Soccer Film

Production company Wavelength has partnered with Foolish Club Studios and award-winning comedian and actor Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions to greenlight a feature documentary film highlighting a team of Kansas City-based teen refugees as they prepare for the largest international soccer tournament in the Western Hemisphere.
 
Set in Kansas City, Missouri’s historic Northeast neighborhood, Global FC – a hand-picked group of teen soccer players – has just 30 days to come together and prove that they belong on this national stage. The elite competition – the USA Cup – features 15,000 players and 1,100 teams representing 20 U.S. states and 20 countries. With college scouts watching and their futures on the line, the players fight to demonstrate that they’re among the best of the best.
 
“The story of Global FC and the players and coaches who pour themselves into the team each and every day is a reminder that people are stronger than their circumstances,” Foolish Club Studios CEO Mark Donovan said. “We are thrilled to be joining Wavelength Productions, as well as Trevor Noah and his team at Day Zero Productions to bring this one-of-a-kind Kansas City soccer story to a global audience.”
 
With Kansas City’s vibrant soccer scene and culture of fandom as the backdrop, the documentary film follows the extraordinary players and coaches of Global FC as they overcome countless challenges in their pursuit of victory on the pitch and as well as their dreams beyond the field. While the talent is abundantly clear, players face off-field trials, including juggling jobs, caring for siblings, food insecurity, cultural barriers, as well as confronting violence and poverty along their path to on-field success.
 
“We are always seeking to tell great stories, in whatever form they take,” said Wavelength Founder and CEO Jenifer Westphal. “The story of Global FC immediately struck us as the type of deeply human, compelling narrative that people will respond to and engage with. Coming as it does, ahead of perhaps the greatest moment for soccer that we’ve seen in North America, we are so excited to be part of this incredible project.”
 
With soccer fandom and viewership on the rise in the United States, and the excitement of the world’s largest and most-watched sporting event taking over North America in 2026, Wavelength, Foolish Club Studios, and Day Zero Productions are providing a path for a sports story that deserves to be told and is ready to be part of the cultural moment.

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About Wavelength
Wavelength is an Emmy and Tony-winning independent and woman-owned production studio committed to telling great f**king stories. Based in NYC and London, Wavelength is led by Variety’s “2020 Producer to Watch”, Founder and CEO, Jenifer Westphal and President, Joe Plummer. With a diverse portfolio spanning acclaimed documentary and scripted films, theater, and branded content, Wavelength’s credits include Academy Award®-shortlisted 32 SOUNDS, Netflix’s RATHER, Venice Award Winning Documentary THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ON SWIFT HORSES starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi, Emmy-winners ART & KRIMES BY KRIMES, FEELS GOOD MAN, and ATHLETE A, award winners WERNER HERZOG: RADICAL DREAMER, THE CAVE OF ADULLAM, BITTERBRUSH, and WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, Broadway musicals including the Tony Award winner for Best Musical, The Outsiders, as well as Tony-nominees The Who’s Tommy and Here Lies Love, and Burlesque. For more information, please visit www.wavelengthproductions.com.
 
About Foolish Club Studios
Foolish Club Studios is the official entertainment studio from the leadership of the Kansas City Chiefs focused on developing original scripted and unscripted programming. The studio’s ethos is to celebrate “foolish dreamers,” those who are pushing the limits to achieve greatness – whether on the field, at home or in the game of life. With credits that include THE KINGDOM, the Disney+ and ESPN docuseries on the history of the Chiefs and team’s pursuit of an unprecedented third-straight world championship in 2024, Foolish Club Studios joins a growing portfolio of business ventures from the leadership of the football franchise. Building on the legacy of American sports pioneer and Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt, Foolish Club Studios prioritizes telling unique stories that reflect the spirit of humility, heart, and hard work that have been central to the team’s heritage since the beginning. More information is available at www.foolishclubstudios.com.
 
About Day Zero Productions
Emmy Nominated Day Zero Productions, a joint venture between Paramount Global and Trevor Noah, develops and produces entertaining and impactful content for a global audience. Current feature film projects include an adaptation of Noah’s best-selling and award-winning autobiography “Born A Crime,” with Lupita Nyong’o starring, a reimagining of the classic Paramount feature President’s Analyst, and an R-rated com-rom based on an original idea from Noah. On the television side, Day Zero produced The World According to Football for Showtime along with Religion of Sports, Last One Laughing with Amazon, two seasons of Nickelodeon’s annual Kid of the Year TV special alongside TIME Studios, the HBOMax/Discovery+ special For All Humankind, and MSNBC/Peacock’s documentary series, The Turning Point, which examines urgent issues around the world like climate change, voting rights, and the global refugee crisis. DZP also produced Trevor Noah’s most recent Netflix stand-up specials I Wish You Would and Where Was I, and produces his hit podcast What Now? With Trevor Noah. For more information, please visit www.dayzeroproductions.com.

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