The Big Green

The Big Green is a 1995 family sports comedy film by Walt Disney Pictures starring Olivia dAbo and Steve Guttenberg, written and directed by Holly Goldberg Sloan. It also stars Bug Hall, Chauncey Leopardi, and Patrick Renna. The film is about the antics of a soccer team consisting of a misfit group of small town kids who are coached by a teacher from England.

The team travels to Austin to play against the Knights, who are the state champions and undefeated for that season. Because none of the kids have learned the rules, they do not know how to play and lose 180. They lose heart and do not want to play anymore, until they discover the talent of new classmate Juan Morales Anthony Esquivel, but have to persuade his mother to let him play. Once Juan joins the team, they go on a remarkable run to the finals, with a record of eight wins, two losses, and one tie, and in the finals they meet the Knights. As the town goes crazy for the final, hometown boy and current Knights coach Jay Huffer Jay O. Sanders returns to Elma, and finds in the bar the drunken father of Kate Douglas Jessica Robertson, one of the players, who tells Huffer that Juan and his mother are illegal aliens, leading to an investigation that ultimately forces them to flee to avoid deportation.On the day of the final, Sheriff Palmer goes looking for Juan to help the team in the final, and by halftime the team is down 20. Withminutes to play, there is an injury to a Knights player, and in this time Juan returns with Sheriff Palmer and his mother, and he is substituted into the game immediately. He sets up Elmas first goal, and with the last kick of the match, scores the equalizer himself. The game then goes into a shootout, and after the first three shots are scored by each team, both teams miss their fourth kick. In the final kick, the Knights captain, top scorer in the league and son of the coach, Jay Huffer Jr., steps onto the field. The Big Green goalie Larry Musgrove Patrick Renna, who suffered from visions of the opposition players becoming monsters, manages to turn himself into a monster in his own fantasy, in order to psych out the opponent and save the kick. The final kick for the championship was to be taken by the Big Greens smallest, and youngest player, Newt Shaw Bug Hall. As he runs in to take the kick, he slips but still sails the ball into th

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