10 Football Movies You Need To Watch To Call Yourself A Football Fanatic!!

Football the beautiful game has started finding takers in India. The exposure to foreign football leagues and the slick visuals of ripped men playing football with other-worldly skills has attracted attention of males and females alike. 

Football is a global phenomena around the world. There has been a stable amount of movies being made around the world and not only in the two major movie circuits of Hollywood and Bollywood. 

These movies have a connection with the culture of the country as well with the beautiful game. This carefully crafted concoction seems to satiate the taste buds of all the football connoisseurs. We bring out the 10 beautiful movies made on the beautiful game. If you are a true-blue football fan, you need to watch these movies ASAP and gain the bragging rights to be called a football fan in a country dominated by cricket lovers. Check it out:

1) Shaolin Soccer(2001)

You probably remember the antics and graphics of the football movie always being aired on weekends on Star Gold channel. A Shaolin follower and his five brothers utilise their Kung Fu skills to play soccer and thereby popularize Shaolin kung fu by winning the national football league.

2) Pelé: Birth of a Legend(2016)

Autobiographical film based on the humble beginnings of the Brazilian football legend Pele. The tragic loss of Brazil to Hungary in what is now known as Battle of Bernes in football world cup 1954 gave Pele the will to contribute in winning the world cup for his country. All at the tender age of less than 18 years. 

3) United(2011)

Manchester United is the most popular football club in the history of football. There's a reason behind this which is shown in the movie. The majority home-grown players in the team met with a fateful air-crash and seven of them dying in the crash. Despite these horrific events, the club fields a team to play in a short period of time.

4) Bend It Like Bekham!

A movie about an Indian girl putting up against her traditional family to play professional football while all they want for her is to learn cooking and get married. An Indian story that will resonate with the Indians all the more after two girls winning Olympics medal and not a single male.

5) Victory

Nazi's are widely and rightly hated. The allied prisoners of war in the second world war have to play against the german national team. The fictional movie stars Sylvester Stallone, Micheal Caine who you probably know as Alfred, Batman's butler and real footballers like Pele, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deyna, Paul Van Himst, Mike Summerbee, Hallvar Thoresen and Werner Roth.

6) Goal! The Dream Begins

The protagonist has to rise out of his poor sorroundings and come out as a professional football player. But his father is sceptical of his plans and wants him to stay and fulfil the needs of his family. It's him who has to choose between these two.

7) Montevideo: Taste of a Dream

Another underdog story which resonate with the masses. It traces the rise of Yugoslavia in 1930s as football legends.But the problem is, the movie didn't see high distribution as its a Serbian movie and only way you can watch this is through peering.

8) The Two Escobars

If you haven't heard about about Pablo Escobar, you must have seen the Netflix original series Narcos. If you still don't know about him, he was the world's biggest drug-lord and owned more wealth than some small countries. The other Escobar scored an own-goal in a world cup match to ruin the hopes of his country. Their fates intertwined and its broken down in the movie.

9) Offside

This Berlin festival award winning movie shows the Iranian women forbidden from watching the football matches. The conservatist society is exposed in this one.

10) Brothers

No this is not the Akshay and Sidharth movie, but a Venezuelan movie originally named Hermano' spanish for Brother. Two young brothers look to their soccer skills as a way of getting out of their slum. While a scout is in town, an act of violence threatens to tear them apart. Another form of the Goal! but this time its Brothers.