Year - 2006
Cast - Kuno Becker (as Santiago Munez), Alessandro Nivola (as Gavin Harris)
and Stephen Dillane (as Glen Foy)
Direct - Danny Cannon
From - Touchstone Pictures
What if someone said you had it in you to be a professional? What, or rather how much, would you give for that one chance to make your dreams possible? Clichéd – yes, but the movie delivers till the end.
At no other place is this more exemplified than through potent combination of personal struggle, failure and football (or soccer in the West). The movie traces the journey of a Mexican immigrant in Los Angeles as he makes it big. And eventually leads New Castle United to a resounding victory over Liverpool.
The movie stands out by entirely avoiding a heightened focus on Santiago becoming #1 and sharply bringing the sport into play. Real football, cameos by David Beckham, Zinédine Zidane, and Alan Shearers, and the closing match with all the adrenalin that is typically European, will keep you sitting.
As for sequels Goal 2 & 3, hold it yet. LAS.
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