The Jamaican national team is determined to qualify for the 2014 World Cup, but the qualifying campaign gets off to a bad start. The coaching staff resigns, and the federation hires German Winnie Schäfer as the new coach. The coaching staff resigns, and the federation hires German Winnie Schäfer as the new head coach. Schäfer, who has coached Cameroon and Thailand, among others, in his career, also wants to know the local customs. He receives an explanation of how music and soccer are connected in Jamaica and meets Bunny Wailer, the last surviving member of “Bob Marley and the Wailers”. Schäfer becomes even more popular when he brings in the popular amateur soccer player Tuffy.
Despite all the lightness, the film never hides the fact that, at its core, it is about the hardships of the so-called third world, judged the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” about German director Till Schauder’s documentary. We are showing it in its original language with German subtitles.
