Each of the films is good in its own way, and you won’t want to turn it off until the end.
With series about sports No. 1, everything is not so bad – projects at the level of “Ted Lasso” or “Welcome to Wrexham” will not let you lie. But if you leave the “documentaries” behind long films, everything is quite sad – the best of them came out at the end of the last and beginning of this century.
“Goal!”, 2005
Young Mexican Santiago Munez, living in Los Angeles, gets the chance to make his dream of professional football come true when a scout from Newcastle United notices his talent and invites him for a trial.
“Goal!” – a rare example of how a sports drama with a classic plot “from the bottom to the top” cannot enrage and “attract” even those who are far from football. The cult status of the film was ensured by the presence of David Beckham and Rafa Benitez in the cast, as well as realistic exciting matches.
“Bonebreaker”, 2001
Former England football captain Danny Meehan has been jailed for assaulting a police officer. There he forms a prisoner football team to play against the guards.
Vinnie Jones, a former football player, perfectly embodied on the screen the role of an athlete who had sunk to the bottom and found the strength to push himself to the surface of the water.
Damn United, 2009
The film chronicles Brian Clough’s controversial 44-day spell as manager of Leeds United in 1974.
A rather unusual sports biopic, because in reality we look at a successful coach through the prism of the biggest failure in his great career.
“Hooligans”, 2005
A student expelled from Harvard moves to London and is drawn into the world of football hooligans who support West Ham United.
Still young Elijah Wood and Charlie Hunnam in an uphill battle against almost the entire world – are you sure you need more reasons to watch?
“Punishment”, 1996
British special forces veteran Danny Bruson returns home and decides to form a children’s football team in a troubled area of London to give them a chance at a better future.
The crazy but very ambitious and charming character of Sean Bean, for once, does not die in his film, but gives hope to a group of young footballers for a successful career.
At the other end of the scale are the five worst films about football, in which you already feel the desire to erase your memory.
Author: Alexey Pletkin
Source: Popcorn News
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