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Gilles, a 12-year-old boy from the Brussels region, is a football (soccer) player. His dream is to become a member of the Belgian National Squad, the so called "Red Devils".
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"OK, I admit. This movie is filled with clichés that return in almost any Flemish movie. A funeral, about one of our national sports (soccer or cycling) and the same actors in almost any movie. But none of that matters. It simply is a great movie. Touching, funny, tear jerking... The acting is very decent and the tension between the characters is always present. Some people say that is has boring camera work, but who cares? It's functional. The accent is on the characters, not on the camera movement I'm not a soccer fan, but you don't need to be to like this one. The title me..."
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Garrincha had only one official wife (Nair Marques from 1952 to 1965). Elza Soares was not married in paper but indeed he had many affairs. Garrincha died poor due to cirrhosis of the liver in 1983, in an alcoholic coma in Rio de Janeiro.
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Gilles, a 12-year-old boy from the Brussels region, is a football (soccer) player. His dream is to become a member of the Belgian National Squad, the so called "Red Devils".