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Goal II: Living the Dream

Goal II: Living the Dream picks up where Goal: The Dream Begins left off in 2006. Kuno Becker again portrays Santiago Muñez the amiable Mexican underdog loaded with potential who beat the odds and landed a spot on the football team in soccer mad Newcastle England. Again we take Goal to Newcastle but not for long. Not only did he get that girl Roz (Pushing Daisies terrific Anna Friel) but now the two are planning their wedding. Life continues getting sweeter as now manager Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane) has negotiated a deal with Rudi van der Merwe (the long absent Rutger Hauer) for Santiago to make big money playing alongside the cream of the soccer pitch with Real Madrid. Also signed is Gavin Harris (Alessandro Nivola) his hedonistic mate whose playboy lifestyle not only continues to hamper his on field performance but is now a bad influence on Santiago. The neuveau riche excesses, the long distance relationship with Roz and the discovery of a painful missing piece of his puzzling past all conspire to put in peril everything dear to Santiago. The action format in this follow up remains the same but even with soccer super stars like Beckham, Renaldo and Zidane showing up in recurring cameos the emotion doesn’t match the original. Never the less Goal II Living the Dream blatantly sets up for yet another sequel and who knows where the dream goes next but maybe the producers are dreaming if they think that the story can sustain itself as a trilogy.

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