For those of you who, like me, believe that football is more than just a sport, this docuseries titled “Sunderland ‘Til I Die” will be a delight. The idea is similar to other Netflix docuseries: a season following a club and covering all possible perspectives, from the fans, to the managers, to the coach, and of course, the players.
Yes, we’ve seen it before with NASCAR and also in tennis, but with this “Sunderland ‘Til I Die” we enter the world of football, perhaps the sport with the most fans worldwide, and with a special or very special team, one that every fan knows, even more than their own city: Sunderland, a team from the Premier League that, after some highly publicized sporting failures, found themselves relegated to lower English leagues. Do you want to feel the excitement and devotion for football from an entire city again? Don’t miss “Sunderland ‘Til I Die”.
About the docuseries
A docuseries that elevates football to an epic level that, if you’re not a fan, you may not understand. But it’s clearly stated by a fan from the city: in this city, the highest salaries in the UK are not paid and there aren’t many joys, except for the weekly match and watching their team, Sunderland.
And that’s because Sunderland is a special team from a special city. The docuseries has a great advantage: the executives have collaborated and allowed Netflix’s cameras to follow them, providing valuable information about how a club works behind the scenes, beyond the goals and the joys and disappointments on the field. Because, apart from the ball going into the net, there are millions of pounds at play, and a club like Sunderland has to be profitable.
In the first two seasons, it mainly showed how they managed to turn this team into a club without losses, a business with high expenses and salaries, and how to deal with this situation in a competition that was no longer the Premier League.
On the other side, the city and its people, the fans, the true owners of the club, and those who put their hopes into the team’s success every week. We enter their lives and their aspirations, we see them vibrate and suffer as only a football fan can understand, no matter how strange it may seem.
Because this sport, whether we understand it or not, is almost a religion for many, a way of life, and a way to live every week in a 90-minute match under the whims of, at times, a capricious ball that goes in or out. To change lives forever.
A documentary that goes beyond football and with which we can understand why football is much more than just a sport.
Enjoy it.
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