Champions

Champions (2022)

Khaled is the assistant coach of a top Saudi Arabian football team. One day, after a stressful match, his frustration and bad attitude lands him in disciplinary court. He loses his job and is sentenced to the worst possible punishment for his ego: coaching a group of players with intellectual disabilities. Through their innocence, tenderness and plenty of good humor, they will teach Khaled the things that really matter in life.

Date of release
2022-03-10
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Manuel Calvo

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Champions

Champions is a 2021 Saudi Arabian-Spanish sports comedy film written and directed by Manuel Calvo. It is an Arabic-language remake of the 2018 Spanish film of the same name. Starring Yassir Al Saggaf and Fatima Al Banawi.

Production

Principal photography started at the end of February 2020 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with plans to shoot for 7 weeks there and then in Dubai, but could not finish filming due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The last scenes had to be filmed a year later, at the expense of the lifting of restrictions in the country.

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