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1) Just Charlie
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Young soccer star Charlie has the world at his feet. With a top club desperate to sign him, his future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Trapped in the body of a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's expectations and shedding this ill-fitting skin. Charlie's next move will tear the family apart and threaten everything they hold dear.
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Jack finds himself adrift after his father, legendary Coach Davis, cuts him from his renowned soccer club. Estranged from his dad, at odds with his brother and desperate for purpose, he turns to his ex-girlfriend Sofia. Inspired by her tough love and unwavering pursuit to become a recording artist, he takes one last shot at his lifelong dream, by trying out for a rival soccer club.
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The true life story of Olympic soccer player Kurt Kuykendall. Faced with rejection of his perfectionist father, his mother's crippling alcoholism and his own failure to make it as a college basketball player, Kurkendall meets Christ at an emotional crossroad. Then at the bidding of an insistent friend, he tries out for the college soccer team, having never played competitive soccer in his life. To everyone's surprise he becomes an overnight sensation....
4) Strike
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A young mole must try to achieve his impossible dream of becoming a soccer player in order to save his hometown gold mine from a greedy supervillain known only as 'The Boss.'
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The world of soccer has been taken over by the elite Football Federation. With the threat of their club's disbandment, a boy named Sonny and his team of underdogs desperately look for a way to continue their life's passion on their small remote island. Even though they have no sponsor or special moves, they grasp for their only chance: A match between them and the Football Frontier. With their future unknown, the eleven of them set off into the foreboding...
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An inspiring tale of one of the greatest underdog stories in sports history. Based on the true story of the 1950 United States soccer team who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Coming together to form the team just ten days before the start of the Cup, this ragtag team of recreational players came together to represent the United States. Although no U.S. team has ever won a World Cup title, this story is...
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Part survival epic, part psychological horror, and part coming-of-age drama, this is the story of a team of wildly talented high school girls' soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they've attempted to piece back together 25 years later. What began in the wilderness is far from over.
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The Class of '92, a 2 hour feature film details the rise to prominence and global sporting superstardom of six supremely talented young Manchester United footballers (David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Phil and Gary Neville). Covering the period 1992-1999, The Class of '92 culminates in Manchester United's European Cup triumph, and dramatically interweaves and mirror the highs and lows of its football odyssey with the immense social...
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The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer in the woods, but now as winter begins to bite, we'll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis. While there may or may not be a dark and powerful force inhabiting the wilderness, their survival could depend upon what they choose to believe. Meanwhile, twenty-five years later, each survivor must ask themselves Is the darkness coming for them, or is it coming from them?
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Nobby, a sweet but dimwitted English football hooligan reunites with his long-lost brother Sebastian, a deadly MI6 agent, to prevent a massive global terror attack and prove that behind every great spy is an embarrassing sibling. Nobby has everything a man from Grimsby could want, including eleven children and the most gorgeous girlfriend in the northeast of England. There's only one thing missing: his little brother, Sebastian, who Nobby has spent...
11) Bella
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"An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when a series of events unfold that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down--until a simple gesture of kindness brings them both together, turning an ordinary day into an unforgettable experience"--Container...
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They started out on empty fields in small towns and cities across America, a handful of friends and family gathered to cheer them from the sidelines. Through seventeen years of bus trips, concussions, childbirth and family deaths, they survived soaring triumphs and devastating losses. Then one day they woke up to find themselves at the center of the world. They were Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Julie Foudy, Michelle Akers and Joy Fawcett--cultural icons...
