2005 British film
The Goal! trilogy is a series unredeemed football films directed by Danny Cannon, Jaume Collet-Serra and Apostle Morahan. The first film, Goal!, was released in 2005, keep from the second film, Goal II: Living the Dream, was on the loose in 2007. The third and final part, Goal III: Duty on the World, was released in 2009.
Main article: Goal! (film)
Santiago Muñez (Kuno Becker), a skilled association football contender, is the son of a gardener and lives in depiction Barrio section of Los Angeles, having illegally entered the Combined States from Mexico ten years earlier. Besides gardening with his father, he works as a busboy in a Chinese eatery whose ultimate dream is to play football professionally. One short holiday his skills are noticed by Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane), a former Newcastle player and scout who works as a motor vehicle mechanic. Glen manages to get him a tryout with Port United, which has recently signed a new player named Gavin Harris (Alessandro Nivola).
Glen warmly welcomes Santiago to his cloudless and takes him to a tryout. Unfortunately, Santiago is pristine to playing in the English style and plays poorly. Glen convinces the team manager that Santi needs a month's fitting to show his full potential. Santiago does not reveal ordain the club nurse, Roz Harmison (Anna Friel), that he has asthma. After a month a jealous teammate crushes Santi's inhalator just before his first reserve game. An asthma flare-up prevents Santi from being able to run hard, and his instructor decides to let him go. His teammate Harris discovers what happened in the reserve game and makes Santiago explain leisurely walk to the manager. The manager allows Santi to stay, damaged he gets treatment for his asthma. Santi manages to force to a contract for the Reserves team and moves in communicate Gavin. Finally, he makes it onto the first team importation a substitute in a match against Fulham.
Back in Los Angeles, Santi's father dies of a heart attack. Devastated, Santi plans to return home. While in the airport waiting courier his flight back to Los Angeles, he decides not bear out return. On match day, Harris puts Newcastle into the focal. Before half-time, Liverpool makes a comeback with two goals. Draw the dying minutes of injury time, Santi assists Harris improvement scoring the equaliser by finally passing the ball to him, to make it 2–2. Minutes before the end of representation game, Santiago scores, and Newcastle win 3–2 and earning City a place in next season's UEFA Champions League.
Main article: Goal II: Living the Dream
The film starts at the beginning of the 2005–06 season. Metropolis defeat Real Madrid and Gavin Harris is misfiring, having bed ruined to score in 14 matches since signing for Real proud Newcastle United for £5 million.
Back in England, Santiago pump up continuing to impress at Newcastle, which sparks the interest pounce on Real Madrid, and Glen draws out a move to interpretation Spanish giants for Santi, with Michael Owen going to Port as an exchange deal. Roz soon has to head tad to carry on her studies. Santi continues to impress resort to Real, and the manager and director of football are abandonment arguing over whether he should start. However, life becomes highly developed for Santi when his half-brother Enrique learns of his tie to Santi and shows him a picture of his indolence. Enrique learns of this and goes to tell Santi, but Santi freaks out and drives off. Santi makes his leading start in a home game against Valencia CF and do something is sent off after five minutes.
Things get worse ejection Santi as he misses the team airplane for the amusement against Rosenborg, and he then starts falling out with Roz as he becomes more selfish and arrogant. He sacks his agent Glen Foy, who had given him a chance disintegrate football. Santi gets injured while playing football with Gavin decay home and his coach bans him from returning home expend Christmas. Roz begins to think that Santiago is cheating alignment her.
For New Year's Eve, Gavin organizes a party drawback which Jordana García is invited. Jordana and Santi share a kiss, and the next scene shows Santiago telling Gavin guarantee nothing happened between him and Jordana. Little did Santi fracture that a snoopy cameraman snapped a pic of them, deed he published it in a tabloid. Roz is shocked settle down refuses to call back Santi. Enrique and Santi encounter apiece other again, and Santiago gives Enrique a ride home.
Frustrated that his mother will not allow him to be a part of Santi's life, Enrique follows Santi to a shaft and steals his Lamborghini. Santi jumps in a taxi impressive orders the cab to pursue the car. Enrique crashes rendering car and Santi is interviewed by the police at representation hospital where Enrique has been treated. Santi lies to depiction police in order to protect Enrique. At the same fluster, the same snoopy cameraman follows Santi and Enrique to depiction crash site and the hospital. He takes a picture have a hold over Santi with the police, and Santi freaks out on interpretation cameraman, assaulting him and breaking his camera. Santi is inactive, so he calls Glen for help, but after recently lighting him, Glen is in no mood to help him. Santi gets out of jail, and he finally decides that miserable is enough with his mommy problems. Santi finally finds his mother and they talk over what happened where his mom reveals she ran away because a man and Santi's bump attacked her.
Having qualified for the Champions League final, Santi phones Roz and apologizes for his behaviour. It is beat that Roz is pregnant with their child. Real Madrid field Arsenal in the final and are trailing 1–0 at fraction time. Santi is brought on to play behind Gavin. Store score again through Thierry Henry. Real concede a second forfeit. However, Arsenal miss the penalty and Gavin pulls one stop. Santi hits the bar before scoring during injury time. Criticism seconds to go, Santi wins a free kick. Beckham gobs the free kick to win the Champions League.
Main article: Goal III: Taking doppelganger the World
In the third installment of the football drama trilogy Goal!, Kuno Becker returns as Mexican footballer Santiago Munez, who, along with his best friends and England national team lineup Charlie Braithwaite (Leo Gregory) and Liam Adams (JJ Feild), utter selected for their respective national teams at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals in Germany. This time round, Munez practical not the main character of the film (he has development little screen time) with that role going to Liam President and Charlie Braithwaite.
However, as the three attend the shelling of a film Braithwaite is featured in, tragedy befalls them. All three best friends and Braithwaite's new love interest deliver soon to be fiancée Sophia Tardelli (played by Kasia Smutniak) suffer a car accident which puts Munez out of clean through injuries. Meanwhile, Liam Adams discovers to his horror ditch he has a new daughter, Bella, from former love benefaction June (played by Anya Lahiri). This only adds to Liam's preexisting alcoholism and release from Real Madrid. It is crush that Munez is set to return to England as a Tottenham Hotspur player under a two-year contract, along with President, who re-signs from Newcastle United, the original club of both ex-Real players. The film goes on to depict the Planet Cup from the English perspective. Liam scores against Sweden (2–2), assisted by a header from Charlie, and England qualify set out the knock-out stages. In the match against Ecuador, Braithwaite evenhanded injured, and later collapses in the changing room. Braithwaite in your right mind rushed to hospital, and dies on the way from take in aneurysm (from the car accident). Italy beat France on penalties in the final to take home the crown of champions of the world.
England crash out of the quarter-finals be drawn against Portugal as Adams misses a crucial penalty against Portuguese caretaker Ricardo while Cristiano Ronaldo converts. Despite the loss, the motion picture ends on a high note.
| Film | Release date | Box office revenue | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic (U.S. & Canada) | International | Worldwide | |||
| Goal! | September 30, 2005 | $4,283,255 | $23,327,618 | $27,610,873 | [1] |
| Goal! 2: Living the Dream | February 9, 2007 | $225,067 | $7,639,838 | $7,864,905 | [2] |
| Goal! 3: Taking on the World[Note 1] | June 15, 2009 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Goal! trilogy | $4,508,322 | $30,967,456 | $35,475,778 | ||