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Take the Ball, Pass the Ball(2018)
Status: Released
Date: 2018-11-07
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Time: 1h 47m
The Making of the Greatest Team in the World
Overview:
Take the Ball, Pass the Ball is the definitive story of the greatest football team ever assembled. For four explosive years, Pep Guardiola's Barça produced the greatest football in history, seducing fans around the world. In this exclusive, first-hand account of events between 2008 and 2012, the players themselves reveal the tension of the bitter Guardiola-Mourinho rivalry, the emotion of Abidal's fight back from cancer to lift the European Cup and how Messi, the best footballer the world's ever seen, was almost rejected by Barça as a 13-year-old.
Languages: Sanskrit, English, Spanish.
Countries:
Spain
Budget: $750,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Versus Entertainment
Movie: Take the Ball, Pass the Ball
Top 10 Billed Cast
Pep Guardiola
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Lionel Messi
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Xavi
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Andrés Iniesta
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Gerard Piqué
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Carles Puyol
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Thierry Henry
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Samuel Eto'o
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Víctor Valdés
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