Giant Killing (2007)

In Giants Killing a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo are struggling in Japan’s top football league. The team is going through an abysmal spell right now where they are nearing the bottom of the table and have lost 5 matches in a row. The losses haven’t done much to team moral, because it was already low. Fan support, on the other hand, is looking bleak. In the world of football, once the fans turn on a team the end is near. Teams don’t recover. Coaches are fired, players are sold, and teams drop to lower divisions where profits often prevent them from ever being successful against even mediocre top division teams. East Tokyo United, ETU, can only blame their coach right now. And Coach is ready to give up this next game to prove to his team and fans, that against the biggest club in the nation he can make this team win.

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East Tokyo United, kurz ETU, befindet sich in der Krise. Fünf Spiele in Folge hat man verloren und der endgültige Abstieg in eine untere Liga droht. Die Teammoral ist am Boden, die Fans wenden sich scharenweise ab. Die Schuld sucht das Team nun bei seinem Trainer, der wiederum das Ruder noch einmal herumreißen, und mit viel taktischem Geschick das scheinbar Unvermeidliche abwenden will.

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Testo della bandella:
La squadra di calcio dell’East Tokyo United è nei guai: da tempo non riesce a uscire dalla mediocrità e ha persino subito l’onta della retrocessione. Ora è di nuovo nella massima serie giapponese, ma i risultati continuano a latitare. Per questo la dirigenza decide di rischiare il tutto per tutto e inizia a cercare Takeshi Tatsumi: la giovanissima ex stella dell’ETU, però, ora allena in Inghilterra e convincerlo a tornare in patria non sarà facile…

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