{"id":751792,"date":"2026-06-21T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751792\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:28:08","slug":"12-of-the-best-soccer-movies-to-watch-while-the-world-cup-isnt-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751792\/","title":{"rendered":"12 of the best soccer movies to watch while the World Cup isn&#8217;t on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WAOPPTVGQZGYVNGNSXRI5XGQC4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">They call soccer the beautiful game. But like any endeavor, it can encompass the good, the bad and the ugly. Or at least movies about soccer can, engaging with themes of race and gender, ego, hubris, economics, politics, fandom, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat \u2014 as well as, of course, unadulterated athleticism. If the game has captured your imagination and you want continued programming when World Cup games aren\u2019t on, it might be time to turn to cinema. Here are 12 soccer movies worth revisiting for the laughs, life lessons and fancy footwork they contain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They call soccer the beautiful game. But like any endeavor, it can encompass the good, the bad and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-751792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}