Next Goal Wins (2014)
Directed by Mike Brett
and Steve Jamison this documentary follows the American Samoan
national football team. American Samoa are the worst ranked nation in
world football having never won a competitive match and holding the
record for the largest defeat.
This documentary does
an amazing job of exploring a group that play football for the love
of the game in an era when it is so commercialised. I would like to
have seen a little more of the players day to day lives but the film
does a great job of exploring so many varied themes you can forgive
it for leaving out a little. There is some really great
cinematography and the film never gives into sentimentality.
4/5
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