Kicking It (2008) on Netflix
NR20081h 38mDocumentarySport
Seven homeless players travel to Cape Town for the 2006 Homeless World Cup. Najib, Alex, Damien, Simon, Craig and Jesus come from Afghanistan, Kenya, Dublin, Charlotte and Madrid.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb7.2/10400 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes53%
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The Homeless World Cup is a yearly soccer competition for homeless people, first held in Austria in 2003. The 2006 edition takes place in Cape Town, South Africa, where 48 teams of 500 homeless players come together. Seven of them are Najib, from Afghanistan; Alex, out of a Kenyan slum; Damien and Simon, who reached the game through Dublin drug rehabilitation clinics; Craig, off the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina; Jesus, from Madrid's public shelters; and a player from St. Petersburg. Each has the chance to represent his country.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kicking It (2008)
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- Colin Farrell agreed to narrate the documentary after seeing it and finding it "undeniably moving" and "important"; he said he was particularly affected by the stories of Afghanistan's Najib and Ireland's Simon.
- The competition at the heart of the film, the Homeless World Cup, is an annual international football tournament for homeless people and was first held in Austria in 2003.
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