Champs (2018)★ 5.3/10

MX · 86 min · May 18, 2018

• Drama
• Sport

Directed by: Lourdes Deschamps

Written by: Lourdes Deschamps

On October the second of two thousand and five, in the city of Lima, Peru, a coach and twenty-one soccer players made history winning the first U-17 World Cup for Mexico. Nevertheless our history doesn't begin on that date; it started way back and it goes faraway soccer fields. "Champs" tells the story in retrospective, of all the ups and downs, the struggles, the funny and even sad events along with the intense preparation they faced to achieve their goals. We travel into a personal adventure with the coach and his team members, living the personal drama of the players and their family backgrounds, the daily efforts they had to face reaching for the excellent required accomplishing the desire success. "Champs" is not a movie about soccer; it's a movie about champions.