The YouTube film featuring a kids football team in Spain who can’t win a game, or even score a goal, but win hearts with their attitude.
This story appeared in the UK national media in September of 2011, and it’s repeated as a reminder of why kids play football.
“L’equip petit is really as little as the kids of Margatania F.C,” say the makers of the film that charts the enduring search for a goal by a group of children whose lack of success on the field does nothing to dampen their spirit and love of the game.
“In fact, this is not the final project, we hope to be with the team next year shooting during all the championship. This short was originally a demo to show the fathers and mothers of the kids and our closer friends. This isn’t a video made with commercial purposes so thank you very much everybody!”
The film – which can be seen in full here and is well worth nine minutes of your time – interviews the young players and shows them trying their hardest on the dusty Spanish pitch that is their home. With little success. Yet they keep smiling.
Asked how often they score, the children draw a collective blank – “someone almost scored once,” says one child “but I didn’t see it” – but, as another of their number says with a toothy smile: “We don’t care, we’ll score when we grow old.”