Africa United (2005 film)

Africa United is an Icelandic documentary film by director laf de Fleur Jhannesson released in 2005. The film explores the life of Zakaria Anbari who moves to Iceland from Morocco in search of fortune. It won the Documentary of the Year at the 2005 Edda Awards. It also received nominations for Director of the Year and Script of the Year at the 2005 Edda Awards.

The team starts out by looking for sponsors to support them. They faced multiple rejections from companies, and their final hope is with Vodafone. The team creates a mockup of an advertisement as a sponsorship pitch to Vodafone, which impresses the management and finally secures a sponsorship for Africa United.The team encounters many setbacks throughout the season. By midseason, the team has lost all their games thus far. Furthermore, the team constantly has strong arguments with each other, causing one of their best players, Zlatko Zlatko Krickic to leave the team and return home to Serbia to get married. Faced with the multiple setbacks, Zico decides to head to England to seek the advice from the Charlton Athletic Football Club manager, Alan Curbishley. With the advice from Alan, Zico comes back to Iceland with new ideas of leading the team and approaching his life goals. ........

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