Soccer Movies
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009After gaining experience with the football club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez (Becker) gets a huge break when he’s transferred to Real Madrid.
Goal!
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer. However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that–a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
The Game of Their Lives
Friday, July 24th, 2009Phil Weston (Will Ferrell) has been un-athletic his entire life. In college he failed at every sport that he tried out for. It looks like his 10-year old son, Sam (Dylan McLaughlin), is following in his footsteps. Sam is riding the bench on the best soccer team in the league, which just happens to be […]
Switching Goals
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen do their best in this twin girl soccer storyline movie for kids.
Mean Machine
Monday, July 20th, 2009Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny ‘Mean Machine’ Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. Whilst in jail, he doesn’t receive any favors because of his celebrity status in the outside world. He is out numbered and many prisoners constantly barrage him with insults for letting down his country in a crucial World Cup […]
Ladybugs
Saturday, July 18th, 2009Chester thinks he is going to get a promotion, and tells his fiancee. In a meeting with his boss he lies and says that he coached soccer before and his boss puts him as the coach of a ladies soccer team. There is only one problem, they suck. The only way to rectify the problem […]
The Match
Thursday, July 16th, 2009The Match is a contemporary romantic comedy, set in the idyllic Highland village of Inverdoune. Wullie Smith, still carrying the physical and emotional scars of the childhood death of his younger brother, is the village milkman. A young man whose potential is concealed his gently diffident exterior, Wullie is locally known for his remarkable T.F.R. […]
Fever Pitch
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby’s best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth (played by Colin Firth) believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal’s roller coaster fortunes […]
The Cup
Sunday, July 12th, 2009While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on […]
The Football Factory
Friday, July 10th, 2009The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they’re not good enough and using their fists as a drug they […]
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