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Next Goal Wins review – droll account of the world’s worst football team

Michael Fassbender plays the troubled coach of American Samoa in Taika Waititi’s slapdash but charming crowd-pleaser

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023

Next Goal Wins review – Michael Fassbender funnies it up in Taika Waititi’s football yarn

Waititi has made some strange casting decisions in his amiable comedy about the real-life travails of the American Samoa team and hothead coach Thomas Rongen

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2023

Highest number of odd-year constitutional amendments approved since 2003

Welcome to the Tuesday, November 28, Brew. 

Ballotpedia · Nov 28, 2023

After Years Of Waiting Following Armie Hammer Controversy, Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins Trailer Is Finally Here

Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins is finally hitting theaters following Armie Hammer's exit.

Cinemablend · Apr 26, 2023

How a leap of faith led Tyrone Taleni from Samoa to USC for a sport he never played

Until his cousin, Bernard Afutiti, visited from the mainland nearly five years ago, the notion of playing college football had never occurred to Tyrone Taleni. And why would it? Taleni didn't know football. He'd neither played nor spent any time watching the sport. Sure, football might be ingrained into the…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 28, 2022