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A true genius to watch, it may have some bad acting along the way, but I found myself captivated by the storyline. An Italian boy comes to America and realises he has a gift for football. This film rocks it focuses around the troubles facing a boy from another country and his plight to make it both on and off the field. It has drama, suspense, action and romance. A great all-round film, I caught it on afternoon TV and it blew me away I mean the story is so personal and the fact that you start to feel for the boy is incredible you want him to do well and the final part of the story was great, the finally it brings everything together in a nice happy ending kind of way, but without going over the top. Great performance by the coach who portrays a drunken man, obsessed with the past perfectly, and Simone Corrente gives a warm performance as the main lead, making us believe he really is the character.

A great film that warms the heart and a definite must see for any who like the game of football.

Now I would just like to comment on how the last person kinda missed the point of this movie. Firts off the main character , a 17 year old boy has come to live in CANADA not the U.S (one of the professors in the institute even say "If you can't find a coaching job here, how you going to find one in the states). He comes to live in Canada because his mother has died and is living with a supposed friend of his father who has a family on his own.The movie has a couple twists and turns that make it feel like a 2 hour soap opera instead of a movie.The movie starts off alright but at the end becomes quite ridiculous. Also many shots (no pun intended) were not taken well in this movie.For example the coach tells Tomasso to take a free quick, and he kicks the ball and you can tell it goes over the net,but the next shot makes it look like it went directly into the net in the most bizarre angle.

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It is written so poorly that I couldn't stop laughing. I am going to purchase it on video because it was so bad that it is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The only recognizable cast member is the guy who played "Paulie" in the rocky movies. He plays a soccer coach in this movie which is funny in and of itself. On top of that, his workout technique is to wave a sledgehammer around. There are so many different plots in this movie that its almost like the writer stole bits and pieces from every movie ever made.

This is a movie best viewed outside the US. It is about an Italian 17 year old who comes to live in the US after his mother is killed in a bank robbery. The script is poor and irrational. The best thing that you might gain from this movie is to see how some Italians view life in the US. It definitely IS NOT for entertainment for US viewers.