To see at the cinema: Dream Team, football’s Rasta Rockett tells the incredible true story

It is a story of victory that begins with failure. tingling In rugby, losing 31-0 is already very humiliating. But during a football match against Australia, American Samoa received this fee in 2001.

A historic drop for a team that has long remained at the bottom of FIFA’s rankings. Until this miraculous match, where the team not only scored the first goal, but also experienced the first victory in history, fourteen years later.

If these facts sound familiar to you, it’s because you’ve been following them. Or that you’ve seen the documentary A Dream Team (The next goal wins in the original version), which is the inspiration for Taika Waititi’s new feature film of the same name.

After Thor 4, the director returns to the independent path that allowed him to triumph thanks to Jojo Rabbit and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a Rasta Rocket-style story about glorious losers.

He entrusts Michael Fassbender with the main role, Dutch coach Thomas Rongen, who will lead the team to victory. and made some changes to the storyline to give more space to Jaya Saelua, the first trans player to play in a men’s World Cup qualifier.

Alongside his translator Kaimana, a former player turned FIFA ambassador, talks about the film and the true story that inspired it. So does Taika Waititi and Michael Fassbender in this Dream Team, which plays in our theaters from Wednesday, December 20th.

Comments collected by Maximilien Pierret in Paris on November 22, 2023 – Editing by Alexandre Ear