Goal! The Soccer Trilogy

Goal! The Soccer Trilogy

I don’t know how many of you have actually heard of the movie Goal! I don’t think it was ever released in theatres, but you could defiantly rent it at your local blockbuster or Hollywood video, or do as I did, and buy for $2 on Amazon. Now was it worth buying all three of the movies?... Sort of. The first two were alright, but the third was just awful. Pure awful!

The first movie is called Goal! The dream begins. It tells the story of a gardner, Santigo Muniz, from Mexico working in LA, and playing in a local soccer league in the city. He had no direction in life, and was just working for his fathers landscaping company, and just plyaing soccer. While playing at a local soccer game, a former New Castle United player was there watching. What he saw was amazing skill in this young Santi Muniz. He told him if he was ever in England, to look him up and he would get him a try out with New Castle United. Santi took it seriously, and took him up on that offer, and flew there and risked everything to try and make his dream come true. Playing for the EPL is no walk in the park.

Goal 2 is Santi getting traded to Spanish Giant Real Madrid, and having all the money get to his head, and he ends up putting his money ahead of everything. While playing in spain, he ignores his fiancé, finds his long lost mother and brother, and makes stupid mistakes.

Then Goal 3 comes along, and its porbaly the worst soccer movie ever made. It was pure awful. It was about the world cup, but instead of Santi playing for Mexico, it focuses on his two friends from Real Madrid playing for Englands national team. Santi is barely in the movie. It was just pure crap.

Typically, these types of sports movies are not that interesting. Remember the titans set a pretty good standard, and ever since then people have been trying extremely hard to make an emotional sports film. Lets just face it, all of them are cheesy. Goal is cheesy, but the soccer play in it is quite entertaing to watch. Kuno Becker, who plays Santi Muniz actually isn’t that bad of an actor. He did bother me to much in this movie. But non the less, the first two Goal movies are actually watchable in my opinon. They are watchable, but they aren’t a must. Goal 2 is more entertaining than the first one, only beacsue of the live footage of Real Madrid games, and the final game agisnt Arsenal with great shots of Terri Henry.