Goal The Dream Begins Part 2

[Shinyoung Gedris]

Goalwas made with co-operation from FIFA, which enabled the inclusion of FIFPro likenesses of real teams and players. Adidas contributed a reported $50 million towards the film's budget and marketing campaign, marking the then-biggest deal between a corporate brand and a film production.[4]

Santiago Muez, a Mexican illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles, is a skilled footballer who plays for his local team and works as a gardener with his father, Hernan, and as a busboy in a Chinese restaurant. During one of his matches, Santiago is approached by Glen Foy, a former player and scout for Newcastle United, who helps arrange a trial with the club. To afford travel to England, Santiago saves his earnings, which Hernan steals to buy a truck for the business, being dismissive of Santiago's chances at becoming a professional. Santiago's grandmother, Mercedes, secretly hands him money and urges him to depart for England before Hernan can find out.

Arriving in Newcastle, Santiago stays with Glen and begins his trial. In muddy conditions, Santiago struggles under pressure from Hughie McGowan, a teammate, during a training match. Although unimpressed, Erik Dornhelm, the club's manager, acquiesces to Glen's request that Santiago's trial last for a month. During a medical, Santiago lies about his asthma to club nurse, Roz Harmison, fearing it will damage his chances of being signed; he is then given a one-month contract.

Despite facing some bullying by Hughie, Santiago becomes friends with Jamie Drew, another player on trial. Santiago soon adapts to English conditions and a reserve match is scheduled at the end of his trial to determine his signing on a full-time basis. Before the match, Santiago tries to use his inhaler but Hughie destroys it, leading to an asthma flare-up. After another disappointing performance, Newcastle let Santiago go.

On his way to the airport, Santiago's taxi picks up Gavin Harris, an indisciplined, struggling yet talented player who recently joined Newcastle. Gavin, late for training, finds out about Santiago's asthma, and informs Erik. Erik lets Santiago stay, contingent on him seeking treatment for his asthma. Santiago then moves in with Gavin and they form a friendship. After impressive performances in the reserves, Santiago makes his debut for the first team, coming on as a substitute against Fulham. Santiago earns a penalty, which helps them win the match, a moment proudly seen on TV by Hernan.

Despite the victory, Erik criticizes Santiago's selfishness on the pitch, urging him to pass the ball more. That night, he and Gavin go out partying and their drunken picture winds up in The Sun, enraging Erik. Jamie suffers a career-ending injury as Santiago and Gavin's friendship starts to crumble. Hernan suffers a fatal heart attack and Santiago prepares to return home. At the airport, Santiago abandons his flight, instead training until the early hours at St James' Park after a conversation with Roz, with whom Santiago begins a relationship. Erik then informs Santiago he has been selected to start the season's final game against Liverpool.

The film was the first of a planned trilogy.[5] Originally the lead role was supposed to be played by Diego Luna but he left to pursue other projects and was replaced by Kuno Becker. Michael Winterbottom was also slated to direct the film but after creative differences he was replaced by Danny Cannon. Shooting for the film commenced in January 2005 and locations included Pinewood Studios, London, Newcastle, and Los Angeles.[6]

A soundtrack album was released on Oasis' Big Brother Recordings label in 2005 and contains three Oasis songs unavailable elsewhere, including the exclusive Noel Gallagher song "Who Put the Weight of the World on My Shoulders?" The soundtrack also contains a re-recorded version of Oasis' "Cast No Shadow" with Gallagher on vocals and produced by Unkle. Dave Sardy, a producer of two Oasis albums, contributed a remix of their song "Morning Glory" for inclusion on the soundtrack.

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 42% based on 83 reviews, with an average score of 5.20/10. The website's critics' consensus reads: "Impressive sports action sequences are the highlight, as the run-of the-mill story invokes every known sports movie clich".[7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100 based on reviews from 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[8] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[9]

Roger Ebert praised the film, awarding it three stars out of four and calling it "surprisingly effective". He went on to say: "I was surprised, then, to find myself enjoying the movie almost from the beginning. It had some of the human reality of Gregory Nava's work".[10] Ebert singled out Kuno Becker's lead performance in the film and praised it, saying, "the starring performance by Becker is convincing and dimensional and we begin to care for him. A Mexican star of films and TV and three English-language films little released in America has not only star quality but something more rare; likability".

Variety.com called it "a slickly mounted slice of can-do nonsense";[11] BBC Film labelled it a "fantasy";[12] and UEFA Perspective called it brilliant.[13] The film scored moderately at the box office, making $27.6 million[14] in cinemas, but by the time it reached DVD, huge sales made it the gold standard for sports films in the UK, many European territories and South America.[15] In 2018, SPORTbible voted Goal! the "Greatest Football Film of All Time".[16]

He plays on a local recreational league in his neighborhood where Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane) sees him perform and scouts him for Newcastle United. The only catch is that Santiago must find a way to get to London and try out for Newcastle.

I do like this movie, I saw it before due to growing up around soccer for a majority of my young life. I played myself and my brother played for school, recreationally and for competitive league teams. It reflects the story soccer players (and most athletes) dream of.

The film is nothing truly spectacular in terms of shots, editing or cinematography. The story is the main focus. The game sequences were dramatic and puts you in a third person point of view from sideline conversations with the manager, to Glen and Roz cheering Santi on, to local pubs, to his family back in LA watching in anticipation. The use of slow-motion was used well as dramatic falls, kicks and goals were made.

That flashback is to a car in Quebec in 2004, where a teenaged Kevin Steen has given a ride to Sami Zayn, a wrestler who he barely knows. Their conversation turns to what they expect for their futures and if they might ever make it to WWE.

They go as hard as possible, playing every major move and submission so that side of the ring gets a good view of their faces. Look at them completely ignoring the camera and playing right to the backstage curtain:

Same with part 2 of "The road to R-Evolution" ive read slowly, ive came back to some parts over and over. Ive found very important to know that much about Kevins background, specially these months he was fighting and trying. Its bittersweet, i think. But i cant have enough of this/them.

We feel awkward about our pride, because pride is possessive. Pride is a term generally reserved for achievements that we feel we had a part in, somehow. That\u2019s why parents can be proud of their children, but it sounds a little odd to be proud of a stranger. If an actor I admire wins an award, I feel happy for them, but pride implies a certain amount of kinship and connection that we don\u2019t have. That\u2019s why Johnny Gargano\u2019s eyes flicker when Tommaso Ciampa says he\u2019s proud of him for winning the North American championship: because it implies he\u2019s taking some credit for it. It\u2019s presumptuous to be proud of someone else\u2019s accomplishments. We don\u2019t really know wrestlers\u2013we\u2019re not their friends, not their family. We don\u2019t have the right.

Pride in a stranger\u2019s success isn\u2019t uncommon in this world where, thanks to social media, we feel weirdly close to celebrities. But I suspect it\u2019s especially strong in wrestling, where part of what fans are buying, to be blunt, is the feeling that we have some say in a wrestler\u2019s success. That\u2019s part of why we pay to go to live shows, part of why we buy shirt after shirt: because we feel like our cheers, our boos, our open wallets make a difference. Our passionate support is part of the experience, to the point where we feel almost as if somehow, in some weird way, it can bend time and space itself and touch the past self of a wrestler. As if our love has somehow torn time asunder, reached into the past to put a hand on the shoulder of that young woman in clown school, the boy devouring mythology books in an Irish library, the teen on the streets of Cincinnati, and say: Fortune and glory wait for you, ten thousand voices screaming your name wait for you, we\u2019re waiting for you. You can do it. Irrationally, illogically, we can almost feel as if the fierceness of our support in the here and now helped back then. We know better. And yet.

When I first find and devour the various Kevin Steen Show episodes, back in 2015, I know almost nothing about wrestling outside of WWE. As a result, these interviews are in many cases my very first exposure to most of these wrestlers. Adam Cole, Jay Lethal, the Young Bucks, Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano, Jimmy Jacobs: I\u2019m completely clueless about almost all of them.

One episode begins not in a hotel room, or the Highspots studio, but in an apartment, where Kevin and his interviewee sit on a leather couch together, the traditional Kane mask propped up in front of them. And about ten minutes into the interview I pause the video and say to Dan in distress: \u201COh, this poor man, this poor man, I have to find out what happened to him and whether he\u2019s doing better and if anyone was ever able to help him.\u201D

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