Sunday League is the term used for the minor league football players that get up on a Sunday morning while other are still in bed and chase a ball around a muddy poo covered field during the snow and torrential rain, but it seems that football means a whole lot more to some people which is why that get up so early on the day of rest to kick around a football.
I did some research into the topic of Sunday League style of football and what it involves and where you can go from there. I found this short documentary on Youtube after watching the Sunday League series that is based on Youtube and this was in the suggestion to watch next.
Sunday League is a documentary that followed the plights of several Sunday football teams across England over the course of a season as they took to the muddy fields and parks to play this not so beautiful version of the beautiful game. This film focuses more on the people who play, rather than the sport itself and asks the question 'Why do Sunday Footballers keep coming back week after week?'
After watching this which is just over 30 minutes of footage from the Sunday morning football matches that the minor players put together with a few interviews of what football and Sunday League means to them and why they keep going back and getting up so early each and every Sunday, I think this a very good sum up of the football and links very well to our project even though the pilot episode doesn't have much football Sunday league is not just about the football but about the friendships and the life behind it all, why these people from different backgrounds and personalties get on so well and all have that one thing they share dearly, Football.
This even shorter documentary is based on a young man who so desperately wants to make if from the Sunday league to the professional payoffs and his tale of how to do this. Over the 11 minutes there is interviews with different people from parents of young players to football scouts, they say that from each team of about 20 maybe 4 will get scouted and get the scholarships in which maybe 1 will make it to professional and that not even the players you see on the TV games playing for Spurs/Chelsea or West Ham but for their reserve team.
This documentary sums up just how hard it is to do like another job out their, but with the right passion and skills who knows. This shows how a lot of people have dreams to play football but some still only play for Sunday league teams which most don't know exist but they love what they do and keep hold of that at no matter what age.
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