One, the Story of a Goal

  • March 2010
  • 1hr

    42mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Carlos Moreno,

    Gerardo Muyshondt,

    Starring

    Luis Guevara Mora,

    Mauricio Alonso Rodríguez,

    Luis Ramírez Zapata,

    Norberto Huezo

    ...

    In the early 1980s, at the beginning of what would become a 12-year-long civil war, El Salvador's talented football team was one national institution upon which both the left and the right could agree. When the team pulled off a stunning 1-0 upset against Mexico and qualified to compete in the 1982 World Cup, it was a high point for the tiny country's national pride. Unfortunately, the team's Cinderella story devolved into a nightmarish farce.