To start playing soccer, all you need is a flat surface, a round ball, a leg or two, and boom, you're halfway to becoming a regular Diego Beckham. With its low barrier to entry and sky-high skill ceiling, it's no wonder soccer's the most popular sport in the world (at least until pickleball takes over — just 2.5 billion more people to go). So when it comes to the best movies ever made about soccer, we're looking at it top to bottom, from goal-scoring winners to movies that may have flopped before the critics but still managed to find a spot on audiences' teams.
We kick off our guide to the best soccer movies with Certified Fresh movies, including Offside (the comedy-drama from Iran, released when women were completely banned from attending sports), Bend It Like Beckham (the movie that made Keira Knightley a star), Shaolin Soccer (the outrageous action-fantasy from Stephen Chow), Diego Maradona (a documentary on one of the sport's most legendary players), Early Man (stop-motion from Aa
