The story of Hüsnü, a football enthusiast who has dreamed of playing the field for years.
The story of Hüsnü, a football enthusiast who has dreamed of playing the field for years.
1983-01-01
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College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout old woman who deals in hymnals. She turns out to be devoutly drunk and a saloon brawler, leading to Billy's imprisonment. He tells his fiancée he's doing missionary work on a pacific island. He escapes and persuades her to marry him, all the while dodging the police who pursue him.
Top agent Mr. Chan (Dayo Wong) suddenly finds himself removed from duties after his partner Wonder Child unintentionally offends a policewoman, Ms. Shek. But when a financial officer goes crazy due to drugs, Mr. Chan is called back in to solve the case, which he accepts even though this means partnering up with Ms. Shek. The two have some ups and downs while working together, eventually leading to romance.
When a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences.
While flying to Argentina to film a VIP season of the Docu-reality TV show, "Goalstar", the team's plane crashes in the heart of the African savanna. When the team looks for food and water, they are kidnapped by a local African tribe that plans to execute them as suspected intruders. The tribe people are surprised to find the team has packed soccer equipment in their luggage, and they think they're the best soccer team in the world (where in reality, they're a bunch of actors and talents). The tribe forces the team to represent them in a soccer game against the opposing tribe to solve an old conflict on the only water source around.
Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports Lazio.
Baroness Marika von Korossy dresses up as a man, in order to compete in a horse race. Her victorious horse, Satan, will only allow her to ride him and throws everyone else off of him. That includes the dandy lieutenant Tibor von Denes, who immediately recognizes that Marika isn't a man. It isn't long before he makes friends with her and even gets her to dance with him. It's then that Marika takes off her hat and shows she's a woman, which causes jealous Ilonka von Peredy to go into a rage. When Marika is forced to sell her estate to raise money, Ilonka is able to get Marika's beloved Satan.
David Seaman is recognised as the greatest English goalkeeper of the past decade…but sometimes even he makes mistakes! So who better to present this hilarious compilation of goalkeeping gaffes? Pulling together the funniest foul-ups from the Premiership, Nationwide and International games – including that unforgettable Ronaldinho moment – this is the definitive guide to the lowlights of goalkeeping history. With an exclusive interview with Seaman himself, and a few great saves thrown in to set the record straight, Goalkeeping Nightmares is the perfect way to relive these goalkeeping bloopers.
The "Wild Dogs" assumed the challenge of the "Jungle Kings." The coach of the "Wild Dogs " spends sleepless nights. Will Bulli, his left defender, ever learn not to beat up his opponent, or Butcher, the keeper, ever loose his fear of a penalty kick? Also in the opposing team there are problems. The best forward of the "Jungle Kings", a small lion, never wants to pass the ball. To make things even worse, a swarm of Hooligeese is reported to be on the way.... Finally the time has come. The match is about to begin.
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.
Exactly what it's announced: the screen of the famous console video game and a dance with no music, to the fragile rhythm of replays.
Ill adjusted to the modern world and burdened by a mid-life crisis, Steve Bracknall finds purpose as the assistant manager of a ramshackle pub football team.
An insight view on the life of Udo Honig, successful football manager with a gambling addiction (similarities to a successful football manager in real life being purely coincidental).
A soccer philosophy has it that every underdog has its day. This year King s Cup tournament proves that true, when a bunch of unknown players called Sagai United join the competition under the supervision of Paotu, an ex referee who was forced into retirement after getting involved in a gambling scandal.
It is the story of the brilliant football player Cotechiño, hired by the Napoli team as a centre-forward. Too bad that his professional career will be strongly influenced by the frequent absence of his fiancée, for which he feels an inexplicable, almost obsessive jealousy. That's why he hires a plumber very similar to him to keep an eye on his beloved, but that won't be enough when Cotechiño is kidnapped.
In an amateur soccer match, the referee kicks out the goalkeeper. A very special fan will animate the substitute the rest of the game.
At the bench, the coach and three reserve players, including a sleepy goalkeeper. The game is about to start. Our team needs to win. The coach paces nervously and relays instructions to the players on the field... But the coach's attention to the ongoing game is repeatedly interrupted by family members, from the youngest to the oldest, who come one by one to remember him that a significant family gathering is about to take place and that his presence is needed. The coach is reluctant to leave the field on account of the importance of winning this game. What is this important gathering? Are his priorities proper?
France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match.
As the name suggests, the movie is about football. It is not about big league soccer, making huge money. It is about football, which lives just from village fans enthusiasm, from the enthusiasm of fathers and their sons and club officials. And yet on this battlefield, where the pub and silent household alternates, it is often about everything: friends, family, the meaning of life. It is about playing fair, but also about fighting below the belt. It is about winning, but also about falling into the abyss of the league wilderness.