FIFA backs football team trilogy

The Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is in talks to play the leading role in Goal! A planned trilogy of films about a young footballer’s rise to stardom.

The film has the backing of FIFA, the governing body of world football, which has agreed to assign all of its licensing and trademark rights to the production, as well as linking the producers with the 15 sponsors of the 2006 World Cup, which will be the setting for the final film in the trilogy.