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No Place for Football review – battling ice and snow to play the beautiful game in Greenland
Life is tough on the autonomous territory – not least for its footballers, as this documentary testifies As the football-industrial complex churns out ever more eyeball-aimed product, precision engineered to trigger either triumphalism or nostalgia (or both), there’s occasionally room for stories like this about Greenland’s eight team championship playoff: scrappy chronicles of big-hearted underachievers in obscure corners of the football universe. (One of them, about perennial losers American Samoa , even got turned into a feature film directed by Taika Waititi .) Could Greenland’s strugglers and strivers end up as characters in a big-screen comedy? Stranger things have happened and, after the country’s surprise arrival in the geopolitical spotlight , this might yet be the best way for outsiders to get some understanding of the place. As it is, one of the main virtues of this film is to
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According to The Guardian’s source item, No Place for Football review – battling ice and snow to play the beautiful game in Greenland, Life is tough on the autonomous territory – not least for its footballers, as this documentary testifies As the football-industrial complex churns out ever more eyeball-aimed product, precision engineered to trigger either triumphalism or nostalgia (or both), there’s occasionally room for stories like this about Greenland’s eight team championship playoff: scrappy chronicles of big-hearted underachievers in obscure corners of the football universe. (One of them, about perennial losers American Samoa , even got turned into a feature film directed by Taika Waititi .) Could Greenland’s strugglers and strivers end up as characters in a big-screen comedy? Stranger things have happened and, after the country’s surprise arrival in the geopolitical spotlight , this might yet be the best way for outsiders to get some understanding of the place. As it is, one of the main virtues of this film is to
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