A Swedish teenage soccer prodigy who's acquired by a prime Italian crew finds that the excessive price ticket positioned on his expertise doesn’t essentially switch to his self-worth, on this spectacular, knotty examination of the psychology of sporting excellence. The second characteristic from writer-director Ronnie Sandahl (who additionally wrote the screenplay for the story of tennis rivalry Borg vs McEnroe), Tigers is impressed by the real-life story of Martin Bengtsson.
Erik Enge is outstanding within the central position of Martin. He’s a gauche, pushed child with braces and a pocket book through which he writes, in his naive youngster’s hand, motivational notes to himself: Practice Eat Recuperate. However he finds himself in a world that, whereas not precisely grownup – the opposite junior crew members are arrested in a type of petulant everlasting adolescence – is filled with grownup temptations and challenges.
Ostracised by the truth that he speaks no Italian, and struggling to know the animosity that’s directed at him by the opposite gamers, Martin finds a good friend in American teammate Ryan (Alfred Enoch), and a girlfriend, Vibeke (Frida Gustavsson), a Swedish mannequin coasting in a job she not cares about.
However Martin’s profession, in accordance with the slick-suited males who deal with younger gamers like costly additions to their toy field, ought to come earlier than all else. Lonely, depressed and in disaster, he finds that darkish ideas rush into the opening the place his emotional assist system was. It’s an completed, unusually subtle tackle the sports activities film style, which marks Sandahl out as a premier league expertise.
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