Goal! (trilogy)
| Goal! trilogy | |
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Goal! film poster
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| Directed by |
Goal!: Danny Cannon Goal II: Living the Dream: Jaume Collet-Serra Goal III: Taking on the World: Andrew Morahan |
| Produced by |
Mike Jefferies & Matt Barrelle Goal! Goal III: Living the Dream Goal III: Taking on the World Mark Huffam Goal! Goal! 2: Living the Dream Danny Stepper & Peter Heslop Goal! 3: Taking on the World |
| Written by |
Mike Jefferies & Adrian Butchart Goal! Goal! 2: Living the Dream Goal! 3: Taking on the World Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Goal! Terry Loane Goal! 2: Living the Dream Piers Ashworth Goal! 3: Taking on the World |
| Starring |
Kuno Becker Alessandro Nivola Stephen Dillane Anna Friel JJ Feild Leo Gregory |
| Distributed by | Summit Entertainment |
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Release date
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Goal!: September 30, 2005 Goal! 2: Living the Dream: February 9, 2007 Goal! 3: Taking on the World: June 15, 2009 |
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Running time
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Total (3 films): 319 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget |
Total (3 films): $33,000,000 |
| Box office |
Total (3 films): $32,475,778 |
The Goal! trilogy is a series of football films directed by Danny Cannon, Jaume Collet-Serra and Andrew Morahan. The first film, Goal!, was released in 2005, and the second film, Goal II: Living the Dream, was released in 2007. The third and final part, Goal III: Taking on the World, was released in 2009.
Santiago Muñez (Kuno Becker), a skilled association football player, is the son of a gardener and lives in the Barrio section of Los Angeles, having illegally entered the United States from Mexico ten years earlier. Besides gardening with his father, he works as a busboy in a Chinese restaurant whose ultimate dream is to play football professionally. One day his skills are noticed by Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane), a former Newcastle player and scout who works as a car mechanic. Glen manages to get him a tryout with Newcastle United, which has recently signed a new player named Gavin Harris (Alessandro Nivola).
Glen warmly welcomes Santiago to his home and takes him to a tryout. Unfortunately, Santiago is unused to playing in the English style and plays poorly. Glen convinces the team manager that Santi needs a month's trial to show his full potential. Santiago does not reveal to the club nurse, Roz Harmison (Anna Friel), that he has asthma. After a month a jealous teammate crushes Santi's inhaler just before his first reserve game. An asthma flair prevents Santi from being able to run hard, and his coach decides to let him go. His teammate Harris discovers what happened in the reserve game and makes Santiago explain it to the manager. The manager allows Santi to stay, provided he gets treatment for his asthma. Santi manages to get a contract for the Reserves team and moves in with Gavin. Finally, he makes it onto the first team as a substitute in a match against Fulham.
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