Top Ten Football Moments on Film

Football has a venerable history as a rich and suggestive subject matter for cinema. It has variously served as a metaphor for human struggle, a way of figuring themes like ambition and perseverance in the face of adversity, as a way of expressing social and cultural identities on screen, and as a vehicle for broad, farcical comedy. The beautiful game is nowhere more beautiful than in cinematic narrative.

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