FOOTBALL DAYS aka DiAS DE FÚTBOL

Year: 2003
UK: Dogwoof Pictures
Cast: Alberto San Juan, Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Verbeke, Maria Esteve, Fernando Tejero, Roberto Alamo, Secum De La Rosa, Pere Ponce, Luis Bermejo, Lola Duenas, Pilar Castro, Diego Martin, Eva Santolaria, Pepo Oliva
Director: David Serrano
Countries: Spain / Azerbaijan
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
UK: 113 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and sex
UK Release Date: 12 August 2005

UK Distributor

Synopsis

Six thirty-something friends, talent-less and unfit, form a seven-a-side football team and call their team Brazil. They plan to play soccer until they win.

This is a comedy of delusion, of the survival of the unfitest in the face of humiliation and inevitable defeat. On and off the pitch their movements are the same - shuffling, stumbling then staggering, the pratfalls of endearing losers.

Their most formidable opponents, of course, are the women they love but can't stand - demanding wives and girlfriends. Sexual adventures give way to prosaic thirty-something coupledom.

A feel-good movie and a hilarious buddy comedy, with football, sex and mid 30's crisis.