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The Perfect Match

Men and women should live in harmony... but even in the same football team? Are we not taking this team-spirit thing a little far?

synopsis

Oriana always dreamt of handling the football team owned and led by her father Arrigo, the Angelica Calcio. But he never allowed it, considering her ill-suited because of her sex. When Arrigo ends up in a coma, Oriana finally has her shot. She becomes the president of the Angelica and decides she will transform it into the first mixed team in history: men and women with the same colours, chasing the same victory... this is the future of soccer for Oriana! Unfortunately, she seems to be the only one to see it: both the board members and the male players' revolt. They see the disasters it would bring: guaranteed relegation, the supporters’ exodus and the Angelica bankruptcy. But Oriana is stubborn and hires Zanna, the only football coach willing to help her, a washed-up first league glory, whose best days are far over. Actually, Zanna himself believes football is a sport for real men, but he takes the job as such an impossible challenge taunts his ego: if he wins even just one match, he would prove his talent to everybody and get his big comeback. Oriana and Zanna are opposites but need to cooperate. They select 4 top-notch female players who join the crazy enterprise and pursue it against all: the supporters, the male football players, the press, the Italian Football Federation and the whole town of Sant’Angelo, who identifies with its soccer team. The mixed team will be a game-changer or everybody’s ruin?

Director’statement

The battle of the sexes happening in our society is full of contradictions; we want equality, of course, but it is not as simple as denying differences. Sports, as the last standing bastion of the separation of the sexes, proves it. And our characters do the same, torn as they are between ideology and profit, fragile, contradictory and therefore tender and hard to resist.

TFL PROGRAMME:
SeriesLab 2018
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