The Significance of Soccer

Rating: 8/10 (14 December 2019)

Not too long ago I watched a war movie in which soccer played a major role. The name of the movie was The Boys in Company C and the war was Vietnam. Company C was tasked with playing a soccer game against a Vietnamese team. If they threw the game then they would all be removed from the battlefield and be able to serve the rest of their time playing soccer matches across east Asia.
In this movie, soccer again takes center stage during a war. Except now it's the allied forces playing against Germany during WWII. The soccer game for some is a chance to beat the Germans even though they may be losing the war and for others it was a chance to escape.
I generally like underdog movies as most people do. The underdogs here are playing for a lot. The war won't be decided by the soccer match, but its implications and its significance is still tremendous. I'm not a soccer fan by any means, but I'll watch the World Cup because I'm a fan of major events. The soccer game in Victory was about as major as you can get without an actual title being at stake. Would the victory be a real victory or symbolic victory was what we were watching for.