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Captains of the World

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2023
  • TV-14
  • 45m
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8.2/10
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Lionel Messi in Captains of the World (2023)
From the locker room to the pitch, this docuseries offers exclusive to all 32 teams as they fight for football glory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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From the locker room to the pitch, this docuseries offers exclusive to all 32 teams as they fight for football glory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.From the locker room to the pitch, this docuseries offers exclusive to all 32 teams as they fight for football glory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.From the locker room to the pitch, this docuseries offers exclusive to all 32 teams as they fight for football glory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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    • Gary Lineker
    • Elias Argentiere
    • Lionel Messi
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    • Stars
      • Gary Lineker
      • Elias Argentiere
      • Lionel Messi
    • 23User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Gary Lineker
    Gary Lineker
    • Self
    • 2023
    Elias Argentiere
    Elias Argentiere
    • Didier Deschamps…
    Lionel Messi
    Lionel Messi
    • Self - Argentina Team
    • 2023
    Sofi Martinez Mateos
    • Self
    • 2023
    Didier Deschamps
    Didier Deschamps
    • Self - France Head Coach
    • 2023
    Thiago Silva
    Thiago Silva
    • Self - Brazil Team…
    • 2023
    Julien Laurens
    • Self
    • 2023
    Alexis Mac Allister
    • Self - Argentina Team
    • 2023
    Cesc Fàbregas
    Cesc Fàbregas
    • Self
    • 2023
    Lisandro Martínez
    • Self - Argentina Team
    • 2023
    Luka Modric
    Luka Modric
    • Self - Croatia Team
    • 2023
    Kylian Mbappé
    • Self - France Team
    • 2023
    Gareth Bale
    Gareth Bale
    • Self - Wales Team…
    • 2023
    Emiliano Martínez
    Emiliano Martínez
    • Self - Argentina Team
    • 2023
    Lionel Scaloni
    • Self - Argentina Head Coach
    • 2023
    Simon Kjær
    Simon Kjær
    • Self - Denmark Team…
    • 2023
    Romain Saiss
    • Self - Morocco Team
    • 2023
    Kalidou Koulibaly
    • Self - Senegal Team…
    • 2023
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    10sindeesh

    Goosebumps guaranteed for football fans

    Usually I don't watch documentaries, but this came an exception. This is one of the best documentaries ever produced. Editing was perfect. This is very engaging keeps you thrilled. It was not always ups, there was ups and downs for every team and persons involved in the world Cup. This is all around the 2023 fifa World Cup. This covers mainly the captians as the title is. Every match was covered with some excitements. No matter the team is small or big, everyone tried hard to win the cup. This covers interviews with the captains of every team who qualified to the fifa World Cup. Once every four years the celebration begins. Legendary.
    9lovemichaeljordan

    MUST WATCH for any sports fan

    How often do you see Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo get interviewed in the same documentary? This is Netflix's biggest sport-documentary ever. This is the most star-strudded documentary ever.

    If you are a fan of football, you can absolutely not miss this. Fans of sports should not miss this. It's one of the best-made documentaries out there and it gives incredible insight into what's going on in the players' heads during the biggest sports event.

    The biggest event in the whole world - FIFA world cup - means much more than just a game. It's life and death for some people. This documentary lets us follow the all-time greats and the underdogs through epic low and highs. The fact that they actually got all the captains and the biggest stars in the same documentary makes all the difference. Do not miss if you are a sports fan.
    10ztheman80

    Cultural Appreciation

    I absolutely love how they have the players speak in their native languages and they're not overwritten with some lame English speaker. I personally speak 3 of the languages used in this series, and it is so special to hear them in their true voice.

    Very well made documentary, it helps you see the players as actual people, not just chess players on a board. I really appreciate the effort put in to this documentary to show the hidden side of these players. It brings to light that they aren't without fault, and they have problems and worries, just like us 'regular' people. Everyone should give this slow a try, whether you're a football (soccer) fan or not.
    10bilook

    Don't listen to Ronaldo fans

    Amazing documentary covering the greatest world cup at least of my lifetime, watching since 1998. Qatar hosted it magnificently (people complaining about Qatar are okay with the next hosts) and obviously the documentary has a lot of Messi, he was man of the match in 5 out of 7 matches and was the best player of the tournament.

    They could have covered more of 2014 world cup final, and copa america final losses to chile in back to back years, how close Argentina got but didn't win but 2021-2022 they finally won 3 trophies including the World Cup

    All in all a great representation of the best world cup ever, won by the greatest player ever.
    8joeyjanssen-30937

    Cool take on the world cup but..

    I'm a bit football fan and I watched almost every match at the World Cup. I understand that they want to make the documentary around Messi because he won the world cup, but they missed out a lot of other important moments in the cup.

    We saw two of the best strikers saying goodbye, Lewandowski and Suarez, and there was no mention of them at all.

    Especially since Lewandowski scored his first and only goal at a world cup ever, which was a great highlight for him.

    They focus a lot on Wales, but left out some other underdog teams. And where was Germany? One of the biggest football nations, and they barely mentioned a word about them.

    Also I didn't like how they portrait the Netherlands team. The FIFA made a big mistake by appointing Lahoz as the referee, who missed two hand balls of Messi. But they only focus on Messi being the greatest, while he should have got a red card, and the whole Netherlands team as some kind of bad guy.

    I did like how they portrait the story around the Brazil, Denmark and Morocco team.

    It was fun to watch as a football fan, but maybe they could have done a little interview with the captain of every country.

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      Both Captains (2022) and Captains of the World (2023) are co-produced by FIFA+ where Captains of the World (2023) is a follow-up to Captains (2022).

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    • Release date
      • December 30, 2023 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official Netflix
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Arabic
      • Spanish
      • German
      • Portuguese
    • Also known as
      • Капітани світу
    • Filming locations
      • Qatar
    • Production companies
      • FIFA+
      • Fulwell 73
      • Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
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