Today I come with a list of the best Football movies For children, adolescents and adults.
Watching football is a way to relax and get away from the world around us. Such is its importance, that we can see it extrapolated to different aspects of our daily life. In the cinema has not gone unnoticed, finding great feature films about this sport.
If you can think of any more, do not forget to put it in the comments and I will add it without any problem.
1- Goal: the dream begins
In my opinion, the best movie I've seen in football. With Goal: living the dream Begins a trilogy of films known around the world.
His plot is in itself a history of improvement, where a Mexican named Santiago Muñez, resident in Los Angeles lives a mediocre life, helping as a gardener to his father at the same time as he combines with the work of cook.
The boy plays in the team of his neighborhood in his free time, trying to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional football player.
His chance comes when a scout fixes on him. He wants to take him to England to do the tests to play in Newcastle. That is when his new life begins.
2- Goal 2: living the dream
Goal 2 is not far behind, being also very good film. This time, Santiago is signed by the best team in the world, Real Madrid.
In his new life in the Spanish capital, he must withstand the pressure that corresponds to him both professionally and personally. In that film the goal is not to enter Champions as happened in the last film, now you must win it.
3- Goal 3: The final game
Third and final part of the series. Goal 3 Loses bellows and receives worse critics than its predecessors.
The World Cup in Germany 2006 is at stake, and to Santiago Muñez only has to fulfill a goal in his meteoric race: to be champion of the world.
It is in this film where you will try to get the coveted trophy anyhow.
4- Green Street Hooligans
A young protagonist played by Elijah Wood has everything to succeed in life until things go wrong and is expelled from the prestigious Harvard University by mistake.
This fact triggers a series of events that will take him to move to London to there form part of a well-known group of violent hooligans.
5- The damned united
Brian Clough, who was the head coach of Leeds United for nothing more than 44 days in the sixties.
Brian, who had a reputation until then, made a Leeds champion a team disaster, something that led him out the back door a month and a half to arrive.
The film is considered one of the best within the theme of football.
6- Black diamonds
Film that reflects a sad reality that currently happens with many children.
Two boys from Mali who dream of becoming professional football players fall into the hands of a scout who only seeks to take advantage of the illusion of the boys.
Money will always be ahead in a movie that works as a complaint.
7-Foosball
Winner of the Goya prize for best animated film, Foosball will teach you the importance of the value of friendship.
A young boy must play a game in front of a player nicknamed"the crack". In his game, he will be supported by some foosball players, who will give them his help throughout the film.
8- The dream of Jimmy Grimble
Again we are faced with the story of another frustrated young man who seeks to be a footballer despite criticism.
Jimmy is a big fan who dreams of playing Manchester United one day. His game was not the ideal one to become a professional player until a strange old lady provides him with boots with powers.
By putting them on, they act by themselves and make the kid can choose to get the biggest dream of his life.
9- The longest penalty in the world
Probably the best known football film in Spain. Fernando Tejero stars in a film in which he plays an alternate third-division goalkeeper who in the last league game has to replace his partner to stop a decisive penalty.
In his hand is the stop and thus get the promotion of category for his team.
The problem comes when some fans enter the field and suspend the game until the following week. It is in this period of time that the events will take place.
10- Messi, the movie
Movie - documentary about Leo Messi. In it, the most important events of his life are recalled: from his contract signature on a napkin to becoming proclaimed the best player in the world.
Directed by Alex de la Iglesia, you will be able to see different interviews to personalities of this sport next to some other unpublished image about his life.
11- Ronaldo
This time we talk about the life of Cristiano Ronaldo.
The documentary investigates the most personal aspects of Portuguese, not forgetting the review of his personal successes.
12- Evasion or victory
Incredible film set in the days of Hitler and starring Sylvester Stallone, who plays a professional footballer.
The story tells how a group of Nazi prisoners are proposed to play a football game against the German national team. Here we have as background the theme of rebellion and the struggle against all kinds of oppression.
They were threatened with death if they won. Despite this, the prisoners gave a play bath to the Germans, who rubbed the ridiculous.
Pele or Michael Caine also appear on the tape.
13- Finding Eric
What would you think if a day knocks at your door to ric Cantona to be your imaginary new friend?
For this is precisely what is narrated in Searching for Éric , Where a postman separated even twice and without illusion for life, finds his support in this new figure.
14- Offside
Again, Fernando Tejero stars in a film about football. On this occasion, he plays a representative of young footballers who has just learned that Real Madrid is interested in a 17-year-old boy who signed with him when he was just a kid.
It is here that he sees his opportunity to earn money so that he can take advantage of the young man. Despite this, things will not be as easy as they seem.
15- The extraordinary story of the New York Cosmos
Story that tells the origin and rise of the New York Cosmos, the first American team to jump to fame.
With the arrival of Pele, soccer began to find its place in the American country, something that led to the arrival of other types of equipment that have been maintained to this day.
16- Zidane, like a dream
Zidane's career as a professional made a dent in history. Recognized as one of the best players ever to hit a pitch, Zidane, like a dream Tells the life of the famous star of the ball.
17- The miracle of Bern
The 1954 World Cup just kicked off in Bern, Switzerland, and a little boy of eleven knows one of the best players of the German team, Helmut Rahn.
The feature film tells how Germany wins against all odds the final to return it the self-esteem And hope to an over-supplied people who had just come out of the war without much hope of prospering.
18- Exit piting
Everybody imagines in a stadium playing soccer, but, Who has put itself in the position of referee?
This film is recorded from the point of view of a collegiate. The story tells how the protagonist suffers from depression and despite this, he continues to referee parties with all that entails: insults, aggressions, lack of respect, etc...
19- Mean Machine
The England captain, Danny Meehan, is sentenced to prison after being detained for drug use.
Already in jail, he will form and lead a football team that will face the guards who work there.
20- I want to be like Beckham
Film that talks about integration and opportunities, where a girl of Hindu origin seeks to fulfill her dream of playing at Manchester United.
On the contrary, her family urges her to leave that dream to study, learn to cook and satisfy her husband. She will have to deal with her family while trying to achieve her goals.
21- Shaolin Soccer
The closest thing to Oliver and Benji that you can see of flesh and bone.
This unlikely Asian movie represents a type of football never seen before. Almost touching absurdity and comedy, a team from Hong Kong tries to win a prestigious championship, as Cholo Simeone would say," Party to party".
22- Rudo y Cursi
Mexican production that tells the story of Beto and Toto, two brothers who seek to fulfill their dreams at all costs.
Their obsessions will make them adversaries during much of the film.
23- Soccer Days
Another Spanish film that tells how a group of friends do everything possible to try to proclaim themselves champions of a local football tournament.
Following this thread, the small group will go through a series of personal problems and adversities that they must solve, not before giving a little humor to the plot.
24- The football Factory
History that tells the life of Tommy, a Chelsea Football Club fan who lives for and for fights and alcohol.
Your actions will always be motivated by the club you are interested in.
25- The San Diego Road
The road to San Diego perfectly reflects the obsession that is experienced by Maradona in Argentina.
Tati is an obsessed young woman with the soccer player, who when she learns of her hospitalization in a hospital in Buenos Aires due to a heart problem decides to go in person to give her a wood carving.
26- Armando Maradona
We had already seen documentary films about Cristiano Ronaldo, Leo Messi and Zizou. Maradona was not going to be less. I also recommend this incredible documentary that narrates both its successes and failures.
27- The Chanfle
The American dealer does not finish with the coach of the team. Throughout nearly two hours of film, this pair of characters will vie for each other's favor in a fight to see who is best in the club.
28- Marshall Team
With Team Marshall we are going to make an exception because of the deep history that it frames: we will talk about football.
His plot revolves around a coach who faces the challenge of rebuilding a team that was destroyed after a plane crash that killed the entire staff.
29- A great trainer
Phil decides to train the soccer team in which his son plays. To his surprise, and without having known it before, he realizes that his father is the coach of the favorite set to raise the league title.
30- Fierce football club
Movie that tells the story of young people between six and ten years who dedicate their free time to their greatest passion: playing football. With this film begins a saga that tackles the adventures of the little ones.