King Otto
As with most great football stories, there is a tale of redemption underlying all this; you can't say it isn't fully deserved.
King Otto
In the summer of 2004, the football world looked on in disbelief as the Greek National Football Team, a team that had never previously won a single match or even scored a goal in a major tournament, took down the giants of world football to become the unlikeliest of European Champions.
The architect behind this unprecedented triumph was legendary German football coach ‘King’ Otto Rehhagel. After accomplishing every major success in Germany, he made the bold decision to leave all he knew behind and work in a foreign country with the underachieving Greek National Team.
This is the story of how these two contrasting cultures came together to speak the same language and write a new chapter of Greek mythology.
The architect behind this unprecedented triumph was legendary German football coach ‘King’ Otto Rehhagel. After accomplishing every major success in Germany, he made the bold decision to leave all he knew behind and work in a foreign country with the underachieving Greek National Team.
This is the story of how these two contrasting cultures came together to speak the same language and write a new chapter of Greek mythology.
Genre
Documentary,
Sport
Runtime
81
Language
German,
Greek,
English,
French
Director
Christopher André Marks
FEATURED REVIEW
Julian Wood, FILMINK
If you follow soccer (can we please just call it football?), then you would have long since understood that team managers are now stars in their own right. They are also increasingly global/mobile, and they go wherever they get offered a good job. This quirky but very likable documentary from ...
Played at
Royal 3.25.22 - 3.27.22
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