Looking for more realism, director Javier Fesser wanted non-professional actors, but real-life disabled people for the basketball team. All of them make their debut with this movie.
Spanish submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Award in the 91st Academy Awards. Selected over Handia, le géant d'Altzo (2017) and Everybody Knows (2018).
In 1991, John Larroquette did this basic story in his NBC film One Special Victory (1991); where his insensitive character is sentenced by a judge to coach a basketball team of disabled people, he brings the team together as they compete against other teams, and he is transformed during the process.
In 2023, an American remake with Woody Harrelson, came out, Champions(2023).