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Next Goal Wins (2014)
7.8/10on IMDb
Released
Watch this 2014 documentary, not just the 2023 comedy adaptation. American Samoa lost 31-0 to Australia in a 2001 World Cup qualifier, the biggest margin in international soccer, and this film joins the squad years later as Dutch coach Thomas Rongen tries to turn perennial losers into winners. The goalkeeper who conceded all 31 returns, and Jaiyah Saelua, a defender who is fa'afafine, a third gender in Samoan society, becomes central to the team's story. It is about the bottom of the soccer pyramid, where everybody still cares, and it is far more moving than the dramatized version.
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The Other Final (2003)
7.8/10on IMDb
Released
On the day of the 2002 World Cup final, the two lowest-ranked teams in the world met in Thimphu: Bhutan against Montserrat. Johan Kramer's documentary follows both sides to the game, which Bhutan won 4-0 for their first ever international victory, and afterward the players sat down together to watch Brazil play Germany. It is a cheerful film about soccer as something people play for the love of it, a long way from the money at the top. A good antidote after a tournament full of millionaires.
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Copa 71 (2024)
7.5/10on IMDb
Released
In 1971, a Women's World Cup in Mexico City was watched by more than 100,000 fans, and then the game's governing bodies wrote it out of history. This documentary brings it back with dazzling archive footage and the players who were there, and it is direct about how FIFA and the English FA tried to stop women competing professionally. Anyone who coaches girls or follows the women's game now should see it: it explains why the sport is still catching up, and the footage of those crowds will surprise you.
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The Class of ‘92 (2013)
7.9/10on IMDb
Released
The documentary for every academy kid who wants to know what making it actually took. It follows six young Manchester United players, David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary and Phil Neville, from 1992 to 1999, as they came through the youth system together and into the first team. It is a celebration rather than an investigation, and United rivals will roll their eyes, but the friendships and the sense of a group growing up in the same locker room are what make it worth watching.
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Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
In the 1970s the North American Soccer League made the first real attempt to sell the game to American sports fans, and while most clubs struggled, one broke through into genuine mainstream popularity: the New York Cosmos. This documentary tells how they did it. It is lively and full of characters, and it is the best film for American readers curious about how the game first tried to win over the country, decades before the current wave of interest.
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The Bus: A French Football Mutiny (2026)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
The newest film here, and the best look inside a locker room in open revolt. At the 2010 World Cup, France's squad went on strike aboard their team bus, and the scene made headlines around the world and caused outrage at home. The film goes back to it with candid interviews, including Raymond Domenech, Patrice Evra and Roselyne Bachelot, and sets out to understand how a whole squad came to collapse so publicly. Domenech has said the finished film left him feeling betrayed, which tells you how raw the subject still is. It runs well under 90 minutes and moves fast.
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