What's the best soccer movie

[GoodDead]

Never mind I just realized you never saw it

[BetterRedThanDead]

Mike Bassett: England Manager is brilliant, for the record.

link (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005V8V9/qid=1101072669/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_18_1/202-6913139-8889466)
This film is absolutely hilarious. I'm surprised it took eight pages for someone to finally mention it. Not only does it lampoon the overall intensity of a national manager, the obvious rip-offs on players past and present are fantastic. I liked it so much I got a England shirt with the name Tonkinson.

I saw the cover of the video in a Gatwick airport shop, and being a fan of Ricky Tomlinson, bought it, had it converted, and make it a rule to watch it once a month and before any major tournament. It has been worth every penny.

"I've got it, boss. It's in me pocket."

[Knave]

Have none of you seen "The Match"

The movie of a rivalry game between two Scottish pub teams...the loser of the final match after 76 years loses their pub to the other. Funny and decent soccer action...also I love when the scottish hooligan goes "ENGLISHMAAAANN!!!!" and chases the english guy through the streets. That has to be the best soccer movie I've seen.
I'll second The Match (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165384/). I saw it a couple years ago and seem to remember thinking that it'd be a good compromise film for those evenings when she says "let's just stay home and rent a movie."

But [ur=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201840/]The Cup[/url] is just a wonderful movie.

[furie]

Ladybugs? LADYBUGS?!?

[jonam]

Why does this film have two names? In Britain we say "Escape to Victory", in America it is just "Victory". IIRC in Germany it is called "Sieg oder Flucht" ("Victory or espace"). Nice film but nothing compared to a football weekly show called "Manni der Libero" ("Manni the sweeper"). Was aired in the late 80's and is still cult. Is about a young boy that makes his way through youth teams.

http://www.hoernews.de/images/manni01.jpg


Silly but great show! ;-)

[OriginalAEK]

What about the movie Mean Machine? Has anyone mentioned this one. It's classic!

[hertish]

Definitely FEVER PITCH!!!

[ronaldinhobr10]

What about the movie Mean Machine? Has anyone mentioned this one. It's classic!


yes its mentioned in the previous pages...but i agree this is the best football film and the reaosn why i think this one is the best is because the only other ones i have watched are
"ladybugs"
"big green"
"bend it like beckham"
and i dont know if i have watched any other ones......but the worse footie film has to go to "bend it like beckham" that was just crap IMO

[Palmetto Soccer]

"Our Way"

[Champagne Football]

I enjoyed 'Bend it like Beckham', but I don't really consider it a soccer movie. 'Escape to Victory' (or just 'Victory' in USA) is not bad, but I can't take Sylvester Stallone seriously as a goalkeeper. (From memory, didn't they have to break the real goalies arm so that Sly could be in the team and help with the escape plan?) Nice bicycle kick goal from Pele though!

'Fever Pitch' has had the soccer level watered down from the book version, but the general theme of a soccer lovers life rings very true for me (not listening to his girlfriend while being distracted by the results being read out on the car radio, etc). For me this is the pick of the crop.

I saw 'The Match' on TV a few weeks ago, and that was actually quite good too.

I also remember seeing Dennis Waterman (from 'Minder') in a TV movie about the first World Cup, which had a very high soccer content in the plot and was pretty good. It may have actually been titled 'The First World Cup', but it was not the WC as we know it. Apparently it was based on a true story about an English club side which went to represent the country around the turn of the century.

Then there was 'Barnestoneworth United' from Michael Palin's 'Ripping Yarns', but that not a movie. Very funny though. "8-1...eight bloody one!!"

PS: For all you Aussies out there, how about 'The Heartbreak Kid' with Alex Dimitriades trying to break into the South Melbourne Hellas squad? What a shonky movie!!

[Becks23]

What about the movie Mean Machine? Has anyone mentioned this one. It's classic!
we watch it every year on our university bus trip.

[SC Pfullendorf]

Das Wunder von Bern

http://www.wunder-von-bern.de

[Almogavar92]

Perhaps not a movie about soccer, but Formula 51 had a lot of allusions to football, especially for Liverpool fans (I'm not one).

Especially loved the scene where the dude goes into the Manc pub and incites a riot against some 50 Manc fans and staves them off with flares. The climax of the movie that coincides with the Man Utd - LIverpool game at Anfield was hillarious. But like I said, it wasn't so much a movie about football as a movie that used football in the background. Not to mention Samuel L Jackson in a kilt.

[evanpemsocr]

Fever Pitch is a really good movie, and book too.

[Sir Martin Keown]

The Great Arsenal Stadium Mystery!!........

....or perhaps Feverpitch, that still gives me goosebumps when Thomas scores 'that' goal!

[destekke]

Absolutely no doubt, Escape to Victory. Pele, Moore, Ardiles, John Wark and Stallone all on one team, unbeatable.
and paul van himst ;)

[comme]

IIRC in Germany it is called "Sieg oder Flucht" ("Victory or espace"). Nice film but nothing compared to a football weekly show called "Manni der Libero" ("Manni the sweeper").


Let's be honest, Escape to Victory was unlikely to be a big hit in Germany.

[startFC]

The best soccer movire ever is with out a doubt the story of a Scottish second division team in the Scottish cup, "A shot at glory"....great film!!!

[Champagne Football]

[QUOTE=jonam]IIRC in Germany it is called "Sieg oder Flucht" ("Victory or espace"). Nice film but nothing compared to a football weekly show called "Manni der Libero" ("Manni the sweeper"). QUOTE]
Ummm, I think the translation might actually be "Victory or Escape". ;)
I don't know what 'espace' means...

[comme]

It's a type of people carrier made by Renault.