SPORT and CINEMA I: FOOTBALL

Michael Caine and Bobby Moore

Somebody once said that the reason football was undeniably the most popular of all sports around the world was basically that you could play it everywhere. All you needed was a ball.

Unfortunatelly this basic rule doesn't apply to cinema.
Picturing football is not as simple as it might look.



Despite cinema has made countless attempts to partray on the big screen the most universal of all sports, there hasn't arrived yet a film that captured the passion and emotion that this sport transmits to millions and millions of fans worlwide.