INFORMATION
ORIGINAL TITLE: Take the ball, pass the ball
DIRECTED BY: Duncan McMath
STARS: Xavi Hernández, Josep Guardiola, Lionel Messi, Carles Puyol,Andrés Iniesta, Gerard Piqué
RUNTIME: 109 minutes
GENRE: Documentary
SYNOPSIS: For four explosive years Pep Guardiola‘s Barça produced the greatest football in history, seducing fans around the world.
In this intimate documentary, the players themselves reveal the tension of the bitter Guardiola-Mourinho rivalry, the emotion of Eric Abidal’s fight back from cancer to lift the European Cup and how Lionel Messi was almost rejected by Barça as a 13-year-old.
A first-hand account of the events between 2008 and 2012, the film features interviews with Barça’s cast of current and ex-players, inclusing Messi, Xavi, Dani Alves, Carles Puyol and Gerard Piqué.