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Soccer Movies
Movies from The Shelf connected to Soccer.
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Copa 71
Copa 71 tells the story of the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico, a tournament that drew huge crowds and then almost disappeared from…
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Offside
Offside follows a group of young Iranian women who disguise themselves as men to watch a World Cup qualifying match in Tehran, where women…
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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait follows a single player for an entire football match. Artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno trained 17 synchronised cameras…
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Hillsborough
Hillsborough examines the 1989 disaster at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, in which a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium led…
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The Four Year Plan
Queens Park Rangers' wealthy new owners wanted Premier League football and believed they could purchase a rapid turnaround. Mat Hodgson's documentary places a camera…
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Next Goal Wins
Next Goal Wins finds its sporting stakes in a team that has become famous for losing. American Samoa's players do not need to resemble…
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The Figo Affair: The Transfer That Changed Football
The Figo Affair revisits a transfer that was more than a change of employer. Luís Figo's move from Barcelona to Real Madrid in 2000…
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The Big Green
The Big Green is a Disney comedy about children discovering soccer in a small Texas community. Underneath its familiar underdog plot is an important…
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Untold UK: Liverpool’s Miracle of Istanbul
Untold UK: Liverpool's Miracle of Istanbul revisits a comeback whose result is already part of football memory. That familiarity changes the most interesting question.…
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The Bus: A French Football Mutiny
The Bus: A French Football Mutiny revisits a moment when the visible failure of a national team was no longer confined to results on…
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Untold UK: Vinnie Jones
Untold UK: Vinnie Jones considers how a sporting reputation can become a public identity that travels far beyond the field. The documentary's football-to-film trajectory…
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The Football Factory
The Football Factory places football identity at the centre of a violent social world, but its real subject is not the match. The film…
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Emi Martínez: The Kid Who Stops Time
Emi Martínez: The Kid Who Stops Time places a goalkeeper's highly visible moments inside a longer personal journey. Its combination of interviews and animation…
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USA 94: Brazil’s Return to Glory
USA 94: Brazil's Return to Glory revisits a national triumph from a perspective that can be more intimate than the familiar tournament highlights. Its…
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Untold UK: Jamie Vardy
Untold UK: Jamie Vardy turns an unlikely route into elite football into a question about how talent is recognised. The documentary's appeal extends beyond…
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About Soccer
Want to work in soccer and possibly make a career out of it?
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What is this sport about?
Soccer is one of the most universal sports around! It’s accessible and normally one of the first team sports that kids are exposed to. This sport is also known as football in Europe, where it is extremely popular, although it is very popular worldwide.
Why do we have a section dedicated to this sport?
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