{"id":10165,"date":"2006-06-17T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T18:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=10165"},"modified":"2018-08-11T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T18:51:32","slug":"victory-gets-the-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/17\/victory-gets-the-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"“Victory” Gets the Top Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The\u00a0June 17, 2006<\/b>\u00a0issue of\u00a0The Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/a><\/b>\u00a0contains some movie recommendations for soccer fans. Although made 25 years ago,\u00a0“Victory”<\/b>\u00a0gets the top spot beating out\u00a0“Shaolin Soccer”<\/b>,\u00a0“Bend It Like Beckham”<\/b>\u00a0and every other soccer movie ever made.<\/p>\n

“Victory”<\/b>:\u00a0John Huston<\/b>‘s\u00a01981<\/b>\u00a0yarn about\u00a0POWs<\/b>\u00a0going toe-to-toe with\u00a0Nazis<\/b>\u00a0is one of the few soccer movies to come out of\u00a0Hollywood<\/b>. During filming,\u00a0Sylvester Stallone<\/b>\u00a0fired his trainer,\u00a0British<\/b>\u00a0goalie\u00a0Gordon Banks<\/b>. He thought goalkeeping was easy — until he dislocated a shoulder and broke two ribs trying to do it during filming.<\/p>\n

For the full report, click\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/span><\/b>. –\u00a0Craig<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The\u00a0June 17, 2006\u00a0issue of\u00a0The Cleveland Plain Dealer\u00a0contains some movie recommendations for soccer fans. Although made 25 years ago,\u00a0“Victory”\u00a0gets the top spot beating out\u00a0“Shaolin Soccer”,\u00a0“Bend It Like Beckham”\u00a0and every other soccer movie ever made. “Victory”:\u00a0John Huston‘s\u00a01981\u00a0yarn about\u00a0POWs\u00a0going toe-to-toe with\u00a0Nazis\u00a0is one of the few soccer movies to come out of\u00a0Hollywood. During filming,\u00a0Sylvester Stallone\u00a0fired his trainer,\u00a0British\u00a0goalie\u00a0Gordon Banks. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,28,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-75","category-honors","category-victory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-2DX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10166,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10165\/revisions\/10166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}