Ilusión Nacional

In every defeat there is a victory.

A sport like football is primarily a passionate celebration, but one that is so massive (economically, politically and socially) that it, of course, also brings many problems. Olallo Rubio's third documentary (and fourth film in total), Ilusión Nacional, is a take on how the world's most popular sport relates to Mexican society and politics.

Olallo Rubio

Hugo Sánchez

(Self (archive footage))

Diego Maradona

(Self (archive footage))

Antonio Carbajal

(Self (archive footage))

Enrique Borja

(Self (archive footage))

Julio Gómez

(Self (archive footage))

Eduardo Galeano

Javier Aguirre

(Self (archive footage))

Cuauhtémoc Blanco

(Self (archive footage))

Felipe Calderón Hinojosa

(Self (archive footage))

Jorge Campos

(Self (archive footage))

Bobby Charlton

(Self (archive footage))

Giovani Dos Santos

(Self (archive footage))

Vicente Fox

(Self (archive footage))

Luis Hernández

(Self (archive footage))

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado

(Self (archive footage))

Adolf Hitler

(Self (archive footage))

Benito Mussolini

(Self (archive footage))

Andrés Escobar

(Self (archive footage))

Manuel Negrete

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Enke

(Self (archive footage))

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

(Self (archive footage))

Miguel Mejía Barón

(Self (archive footage))

Carlos Vela

(Self (archive footage))

Manuel Rosas

(Self (archive footage))

Pelé

(Self (archive footage))

Neymar Jr

(Self (archive footage))

Carlos Albert

(Self (archive footage))

José Ramón Fernández

(Self (archive footage))