Escape to Victory

>If only countries could settle disputes on the football pitch. This quote from the film is actually enough to summarise the whole story. In my high school years, I rented a film made before I was born with a few friends, paying for it jointly, and watched it on a DVD player. Before watching it, the only thing we learned about the film was that the world-famous footballer Pele was in the film. Pele was our hero in t…

Football (or “soccer”, as it is known on the other side of Big Pond) is the most popular sport in the world, but you couldn’t tell it based on Hollywood films. Unfamiliarity of US audience with the sport is just a piece of explanation, especially in these days when Hollywood studios rely more on the global football-loving audiences. The more important reason is in the Beautiful Game itself. Football, with its rules…