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2008 film by Fernando Colomo

Rivals (Spanish: Rivales) is a 2008 Spanish comedy-sport film directed by Fernando Colomo and written by Joaquín Oristrell and Inés París. The plot follows an Under-12 Spanish football tournament.[1][2]

When two youth football teams from Madrid and Barcelona with a longstanding rivalry reach the finals of the Youth Spanish Cup, the tension explodes on and off the field. The players from both teams share a bus and hotel with each other and with their coaches (who are in love but hide it), parents, a crazy grandmother, reporters and even pets. Guillermo (played by Ernesto Altiero) and his son Xavier find their relationship tested as Guillermo remembers his own failure to make the championship in his youth, while Xavier chooses his girlfriend over football. In director Fernando Colomo's own words, this is a "road trip movie about human relationships."[3]

• Rosa Maria Sardà as Rosa
• Ernesto Alterio as Guillermo
• Jorge Sanz as Jorge
• Juanjo Puigcorbé as Fernando
• María Pujalte as María
• Goya Toledo as Maribel
• Santi Millán as Xavier
• Kira Miró as Sara
• Gonzalo de Castro as Carlos
• Javier Cifrián as Pepe

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed Rivals to be a "disappointing" comedy for Colomo.[4]

• List of Spanish films of 2008

1. ^ "Rivales (2008) - El cine en". 20minutos.es. Retrieved 2014-01-28.(in Spanish)
2. ^ Cahiers du cinéma España. Caimán Ediciones. January 2008. p. 49. (in Spanish)
3. ^ "Rivales - 2008 El Cin En". 20minutos.es. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
4. ^ Holland, Jonathan (5 August 2008). "Rivals". Variety.

• Rivals at IMDb