Danny Meehan es un jugador de fútbol que lidera un equipo de reclusos en un partido contra los guardias de la cárcel. Antes de ingresar en prisión, era el capitán de la selección de fútbol inglesa, tenía fama y dinero, hasta que lo tiró todo por la borda. Después de haber sido acusado de amañar un partido, fue encarcelado por agredir, en estado de embriaguez, a un policía. El alcaide le pide ayuda para reforzar el equipo de fútbol, pero el jefe de los guardias, que no está dispuesto a recibir órdenes de un recluso, lo convence para que rechace la propuesta. Danny decide entonces crear su propio equipo. El británico Barry Skolnick, procedente del mundo de la publicidad, debutó como director con este remake de la película "El rompehuesos" protagonizada por Burt Reynolds y dirigida en 1974 por Robert Aldrich. Para este film, el realizador contó con el productor Matthew Vaughn, responsable de los grandes éxitos "Lock, Stock and Natch" y "Snatch, cerdos y diamantes"..
Phil Weston (Will Ferrell) es un hombre que ha tenido que soportar durante toda su vida a un padre extremadamente competitivo, Buck (Robert Duval). Cuando Phil decide entrenar al equipo de fútbol infantil en el que juega su hijo, descubre que su padre es el entrenador del equipo favorito de la Liga. Mientras las viejas rencillas vuelven a aflorar, Phil y Buck tendrán que tomar serias medidas para alzarse con el trofeo del campeonato. (FILMAFFINITY)
Verano de 1954: La Unión Soviética empieza a liberar a sus prisioneros de guerra. Entre ellos está Richard, el padre de Matthias, un niño de once años apasionado por el fútbol, que vive con su madre y sus hermanos en una ciudad minera de Alemania del Este. Durante estos años, el niño ha sustituido a su padre por el futbolista Helmut Rahn, el cual a su vez lo ha tomado bajo su protección. El regreso de Richard, destrozado por tantos años de cautiverio, ensombrece la apacible vida de la familia. Por otra parte, tiene serias dificultades para adaptarse a las condiciones de vida de la postguerra. Además, está a punto de empezar en Berna (Suiza) la Copa del Mundo, pero mientras Matthias espera con entusiasmo el acontecimiento, para Richard, el fútbol no tiene ningún interés.
Maxime Belloc es un gran jugador de fútbol, el mejor goleador del campeonato. Pero un día en un momento de ira se rompe la pierna. Su agente le obliga a retirarse durante su convalecencia a casa de su padre, con el que no se hablan desde hace 15 años. Allí, para su sorpresa, Maxime descubrirá un sentido de los valores y de la familia nuevos para él.
"Las Fieras" no es sólo un equipo de fútbol de barrio como los demás, es una pandilla de amigos que vive al límite y juega sin complejos. Chicos y chicas luchan juntos y se apoyan para conseguir sus sueños. En esta aventura "Las Fieras" además de enseñarnos que son los mejores en el campo, tendrán que enfrentarse a otra pandilla y defender lo que más les importa: su amistad y el lugar donde pasan juntos los días de verano. El amor entre un miembro de "Las Fieras" y otro de la pandilla enemiga dificultará las cosas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Lucas, a teenage boy, moves to a small town in Norway from Stockholm, Sweden. He falls for Susanne, who is on the girl's football team and is dating the captain of the boy's football team. To get Susanne to like him he joins the boy's team so that he can travel to Oslo to participate in the Norway Cup, a large football tournament.
A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, then struggles frantically to keep her wacky charade going long enough to see the girls win their big tournament.
This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in France. Stéphane Meunier spent the whole time filming the players, the coach and some other important characters of this victory, giving us a very intimate and nice view of them, as if we were with them.
The documentary tells about the birth, history of formation and development of the National Football Team of Ukraine in the period from 1992 to 2022.
After a series of pipe dream ventures go belly up, retired pro soccer player Kim Won-kang happens to visit East Timor, where he finds children playing the game barefoot on rocky pitches. Sensing a new business opportunity on finding the country doesn't have a single sporting goods store, he embarks on a scheme to get rich quick by purveying athletic shoes to the unshod youngsters. Sadly, no one there can afford to pay $60 for a pair of shoes, even on a generous installment plan, and before he knows it, he is reduced to coaching a team of ragged 10-year-olds and prospects are looking grim. Written by Palm Springs Internation Film Festival
Framed against the backdrop of Arsenal’s historic “Invincible” season of 2003-04, the first and only occasion a team has gone an entire Premier League campaign without defeat, the film sees Wenger reflect candidly on his revolutionary era at Arsenal and the emotional and personal turmoil that surrounded his controversial exit after 22 years.
Kostya and his friends are young and love playing street football. Kostya dreams of playing professionally, but cannot bring himself to approach the coach. His girlfriend, Nastya, shares his dream, but street football is Kostya’s life, and the outdoor pitch is akin to a second home, a place for friends to meet and play.
Gujarat 11 is the story of an ex-football player, Divya, who takes up the challenge of training juvenile home boys for a state-level football tournament.
Javier Zanetti is one of the last legends of world football. In 1995, still a boy, leaves his Buenos Aires to go to play in Europe, in Inter Milan. Quickly he became the favorite one of Inter's supporters, and while the years pass,while many great players arrive at Inter without winning anything, he trains and fights every day with the same force as of the beginning. Until, at the age of 40, he wins what no other captain has ever won in the all history of Inter. The story of Javier Zanetti is told through the voices of teammates, coaches, journalists and personalities from the world of entertainment. And most importantly, by the great Argentine writer Albino Guaron,who has dedicated his last novel to Zanetti.
The hot-tempered, unruly players of this pub league soccer team are in dire straits after having lost everything -- their drive, their skills and soon, their playing field. When mysterious Walter Keegan shows up offering to be their coach, captain Bubbles and the rest of his loopy, obnoxious teammates are so desperate to succeed, they agree to give him the job. Drilled into the ground with a fierce discipline they have never known, the team pushes beyond their aches and pains to gain not only redemption on the field, but more importantly, their self-respect.
The story of Hüsnü, a football enthusiast who has dreamed of playing the field for years.
Marion "Mad Dog" Casey ha sido una importante y polémica figura del fútbol profesional, pero últimamente su boca ha superado a los logros en el campo. Después de que no le renueven el contrato y nadie muestre interés en él, comienza a pasar más tiempo con su hija de diez años, lo que le sirve para descubrir la afición de la pequeña por el fútbol
He is considered one of the most important athletes in football history. Franz Beckenbauer was the shining light of German football, won everything there was to win in club football as a player and coach, became world champion as a player and coach and, as the father of the "Summer Fairy Tale", brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany. He was also a pioneering advertising icon and an occasional singer and actor. The man whom everyone in his home country simply calls “Kaiser” shaped the image of the Federal Republic of Germany like no one else. The legendary footballer seems like a national treasure today, but little is known about the person behind the ball artist. Public knowledge of his private life is shaped by his long-term relationships with four women. The documentary, completed shortly before his death, uses archive material and prominent contemporary witnesses from sports, politics and entertainment to weave both facets into a look at a life's work with light and shadow.