Le défi du champion

It's a great film for entertaining, this thinking comes to mind in the first 20 mins, and then the story evolves to a lonely boy inside the gifted but rebellious football star. you can't use one sentence to tell how the main role is, what personality he is. I love to see a "Character", here has two. Andrea Carpenzano is really Charming charming charming! A boyfriend material.

Initially the film fulfills its objective, aversion and dislike for the marred protagonist and mainly for his friendships, he totally hates... The film follows a traditional cake recipe, but it doesn't captivate me, poor rebel suggests more pity than the badboys playboys.. But it was very realistic, unsatisfactory outcome, perhaps unfair, however realistic, it represents a lot of our wealthy and lacking in sense young people... Regular...

The movie itself is no different from many of the same kind: The smart rebel who's got almost everything but is an underdog in school and needs help basically growing up. The comparison with the older "Scialla" is almost immediate.

The perk of the movie stands in the football related background and in the Accorsi's character resulting a nice entertainment for a boring Sunday afternoon of a soccer-free summer.

This is not a movie you want to watch a second time:the plot is very simple and the psychological characterization is basic.However the story evolves very quickly and I didn't took my eyes off the screen through the whole movie.Andrea Carpenzano confirms to be one of the best young italian actors.

It is not the best movie out there, but neither the worst. Characters are well written albeit being a little bit stereotyped: the troubled and extremely talented kid with a rather difficult past, the teacher who suffered the loss of a beloved one who is now apatic and borderline alcoholic, the next door girl the protagonist falls in love with etc.

Despite the not exceptional characterization the story unfolds pretty well and gives a more in depth look at what all of them had to go through during their lives and makes the spectator sympathize and cheer for them throughout the movie, which might sound like a very cheap thing but, and you have to trust me on this, it's not.

The scenes shot around "Trigoria" (ASR Roma training facility) and at the "Stadio Olimpico" (ASR Roma home stadium) are also well made and adds a thin but very important atmosphere which is always a good thing in these kinds of movies.

Overall a solid movie worth watching if you love football movies, do not expect a masterpiece but if you're looking for something that has both football and a little bit of drama (not really actually) then that's the movie for you.