Want to know Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s humble (well…as humble as you could imagine) beginnings?
If you have some time to kill, check out this Swedish documentary on how a 19-year old Zlatan brought his first club Malmo FF back into the Swedish top flight with a breakout season that saw him secure a move to Ajax and launch the Legend of Ibra.
By Leander Schaerlaeckens
I get sent a lot of screening DVDs for upcoming soccer films.
For the longest time, they were mostly terrible.
This wasn’t to say PR people made a concerted effort to bog up my DVD player with unwatchable dreck. It’s more that soccer cinematography, documentaries excepted, was awful. (See – or, rather, don’t see – the Goal! trilogy, the last of which was tellingly released straight to DVD.)
That trend was finally reversed when I was sent a copy of United, a BBC-produced recreation of the Munich air disaster, a plane crash that killed eight Manchester United players and 15 others in 1958. Although the Mancunian accents were hard to decipher at times – and that’s having lived in England for three years – the portrayal was gripping.
Last week, I found Heleno in my mailbox, a biopic of Brazil’s best striker of the 1940s.
Soccer film has turned a corner.
