(Above source: YouTube video)
You’d think Amazon Prime timed this Friday’s launch of a documentary series called This is Football to mesh with Thursday night’s kickoff of pro football’s pre-season schedule (Broncos vs. Falcons, NBC). Instead, This is Football turns out to be an ambitious look at the worldwide phenomenon of what we Americans call soccer.
The six-part series looks at soccer’s impact across the globe, under the following themes:
Redemption — football’s role in helping to rebuild Rwanda after that country’s genocide
Belief – the rise of women’s football
Chance – “the agony and the ecstasy of the fates that humble champions and keep every fan believing in the impossible”
Love – four stories showing how “the love of the game transcends adversity”
Pride – the underdog story of Iceland’s football Vikings
Wonder – a look at superstar Lionel Messi
For more on This is Football, visit Amazon.
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