Company: Reassemblage Produzioni Audiovisive
Country: Italy
Section: MOVIES & TV FOOTBALL – FEATURE
Discipline: Soccer
Director: Christian Nicoletta
Editing: Enrico Giovannone
Photo: Christian Nicoletta
Soundtrack: OY
Actors: Sani Pollux (Dem Dem) , Hassan Seidu Salia ( Kaka), Evans Gyamfi (TK), Richard Abu Boahen (MP), Delali Atiase
Voice Off: Hassan Seidu Salia ( Kaka)
Producer: Christian Nicoletta
CoProducer: Alessandro D’Alessandro
Synopsis:
Sani, a football coach in Ghana, has been turning boys from the poorest areas of Kumasi into professional footballers for 55 years. He gives them the tools to become the architects of their own future through discipline, study and hard training. Kaka, his pupil who lived with him for 13 years, is now waiting to turn professional for a European team and is waiting for a visa. Before leaving for Europe he returns to Kumasi, after an absence of two years, to say goodbye to his old coach. Football is one of the only possibilities for social emancipation for a population that comes from the poor surrounding countryside. Sani and his boys struggle every day and make enormous sacrifices. Kaka, facing the fundamental crossroads of his life, returns to the places of his past to understand the meaning of the sacrifices he has made and to discover that the bond he has with Sani is much more than between coach and player: it is that between a father and a son.