Goal! (also known as Goal! The Dream Begins) is a 2005 British sports drama film directed by Danny Cannon from a screenplay by Mike Jefferies, Adrian Butchart, Dick Clement, and Ian La Frenais. [3] It is the first installment in the Goal! trilogy and stars Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Marcel Iureș, Stephen Dillane, and Anna Friel.

Goal! The Dream Begins: Directed by Danny Cannon. With Leonardo Guerra, Tony Plana, Miriam Colon, Kuno Becker. The extremely talented Santiago Muñez is spotted by a Newcastle United scout and given a chance at professional football.

The Goal! trilogy is a series of football films directed by Danny Cannon, Jaume Collet-Serra and Andrew Morahan. The first film, Goal!, was released in 2005, and the second film, Goal II: Living the Dream, was released in 2007.

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Santiago Muñez, a Mexican cook in Los Angeles, gets a chance to follow his dream of playing professional soccer. A talent scout with contacts in the United...

Santiago's father, Hernan Munez, smuggled his penniless Mexican family over the US border to seek a better, albeit modest future in L.A. Eldest son Santiago dreams of more, like native Angelinos, then joining Hernan's gardening firm.

A young immigrant dreams of playing soccer for a world class team. At the tryouts, he not only has to prove he has the passion, talent, and determination to make it alongside the best in the world, but he has to overcome his own demons as well. …

The Goal! trilogy follows soccer phenom Santiago on his journey from fleeing Mexico with his family as a child to playing top-flight professional soccer in Euorope, and finally representing his mother country on the biggest stage of all: the World Cup.

May 12, 2006 · Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.

May 12, 2006 · The amazingly gifted Santiago Munez, a young immigrant living in the barrios of Los Angeles, has an impossible dream -- to play soccer for a world class team.