Goal Dreams
10 tonight
Sundance
Jeeeezuz Christ! Is this infernal World Cup soccer crap over yet? Yes, yes, rest of world, you have a great game there. Now take your ball and tight shirts and drunken hooligans and go back home. Whassat? You're already home, in Germany. Fine. Then gives muh teevee back so Iz kun git to washing The Blue Collar Comedy Hour, purty pleeze? Oh, and one more thing: gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal! When is someone going to score a friggin' gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!?! Maybe we 'mericans would like this game more if we knew more up close and personal stories like Goal Dreams, filmmaker Jeffrey Saunders' look at the Palestinian soccer team's quest to qualify for the tournament you're currently watching, unless it's over, which we don't know, because we're still clickerin' from channel to channel until we hit Larry the Cable Guy. You know, it's amazing Palestine even has a soccer team considering, you know . . . Huh? I'm talking about their over-reliance on the 3-5-2 defensive set, which, of course, negates free-flowing offensive runs required to have any success advancing in top-flight World Cup play. What in the hell did you think I meant? Sundance—in an effort to expend as many hours as the World Cup channels on guys in tight shirts kicking balls before crowds of drunken hooligans—follows Goal Dreams with The Other Final, which recalls the loser-takes-nothing battle between the two lowest ranked 2002 World Cup teams: Bhutan and Montserrat. Sundance, you're trying to kill us, aren't you?
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.
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