If you are a football fan and you want to know more about a player, manager or the management of a professional team, you can’t miss the Top 10 movies and TV series that we recommend you from Real Valladolid International Academy!
- ‘Ronaldo: El Presidente’. Ronaldo Nazario “The Phenomenon” is the main character of this six-episode documentary series that explores Ronaldo’s current life as president of Real Valladolid.
- Field of Stars. A TV show that takes you to discover the most intimate side of the players of the Merengue club.
- Sunderland ‘Til I die. British sports socio-cultural documentary that follows the events of the 2017-2018 season where they live ups and downs after being relegated from the Premier League.
- All or Nothing, Manchester City. An eight-episode series recounting the successful 2017-2018 season of the team coached by the Catalan manager Pep Guardiola.
- The English Game. A drama series based on real events of the beginning of professional football in England, certainly a very entertaining series that combines real facts with some fiction.
- Goal! A 2006 American drama/sports film that narrates the adventure of a Mexican young man who has the dream of becoming a professional football player.
- Apache, The Life of Carlos Tévez. This series shows the Argentinian striker’s childhood and complicated adolescence, from playing in the neighborhood to becoming a world-class player.
- The Damned United. A film that approaches the figure of Brian Clough and the time he spent at Leeds United, the best English team at the moment and shows a manager with quite particular methods for the team’s mechanisms.
- Pelé, The Birth of a Legend. An American biographical film about the origins of the Brazilian football player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, from his childhood in the suburbs of São Paulo to the 1958 World Cup title.
- Green Street Hooligans. We cannot leave out this traditional dramatic film starring Elijah Wood, which tells the story of a sequence of events that will lead him to move to London and become part of a well-known group of hooligans.