Taika Waititi explains why his new soccer film ‘Next Goal Wins’ will ‘resonate with everybody’

The American Samoa men’s soccer team is a true underdog story, and now it’s being depicted in Taika Waititi’s new film “Next Goal Wins.” The team was considered one of the most unlikely teams to qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but still managed to achieve its goal. “I watched the documentary ‘Next Goal Wins,'” Waititi told Morning Footy about why he pursued the project. “I think the fact that it was a true story and was one of the greatest underdog sports films that I’d had seen. It was also the idea that it was about Pacific Islanders…