St. Louis didn't just play soccer. It built it.
Twenty-nine National Soccer Hall of Famers. The team that shocked England in the 1950 World Cup. And one scrappy fur shop owner named Walter Zenthoefer who sponsored youth clubs when the sport needed champions most — his squad became a St. Louis powerhouse, and those players went on to form the core of Kutis SC, winners of six consecutive National Amateur Cup titles.
One of those players was Denny Hadican. St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame. Walter's granddaughter is dating his son.
We didn't plan that part.
Patrick Hadican grew up with soccer in his blood. Played at Busch Soccer Club, then Saint Louis University. Spent the last five years coaching youth boys soccer with Ajax St. Louis in SLYSA. He knows exactly what it feels like to chase a referee for a game card on Monday morning and track suspensions in a spreadsheet that's already wrong.
Kelly Palubiak didn't grow up obsessing over soccer. She grew up obsessing over problems worth solving. When Patrick couldn't stop complaining about paper score sheets and missing match reports, she didn't see a soccer problem. She saw a systems problem.
Those she can fix.
That conversation became PitchReport — a fully built, mobile-first platform that replaces paper score sheets with real-time game tracking, USSF-compliant digital game cards, live updates for parents, and clean data that flows directly into Got Sport, one of the largest youth soccer management platforms in the country.
We have a working app you can demo today. Real referees have tested it. The feedback is consistent: this needs to exist.
If you're thinking "doesn't GameChanger do this?" — good question. GameChanger is built for baseball. Youth soccer runs on different rules, different paperwork, different workflows. USSF-compliant game cards. Referee sign-off. Suspension tracking. Coach flags. PitchReport is built for that world specifically — and built to live inside the platforms leagues already use.
Here's what we need to get from demo to live season:
Development tools and AI credits to keep building: ~$1,500
Hosting, infrastructure, and software: ~$1,200
Pilot outreach and advertising to reach the right leagues: ~$2,000
The hours it takes to build something real: the rest
We're asking for $7,500. Every dollar goes directly toward getting PitchReport onto real fields this summer.
Youth soccer in St. Louis has a history worth honoring. We think it deserves infrastructure worth using.
Some cities play soccer. St. Louis lives it. And now it's home to the app that's changing how the game gets run.
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