MADRID — The beautiful game has just got dirtier. Produced by The Mediapro Studio and Directv Latin America, Season 1 of soccer crime thriller “Side Games” (“Todo por el juego”) proved a big …
and Directv Latin America, Season 1 of soccer crime thriller “Side Games” proved a big swing for the Latin American pay TV/SVOD player, the most watched show on its bow on its premium pay TV service OnDirectv and SVOD offer Directtv Play.
Based on a novel by Javier Tebas, the high media-profile president of Spain’s LaLiga, and Pedro Torrens, and set at a bedraggled soccer club somewhere in Northern Spain which is battling to avoid relegation from Spain’s second division, “Side Games” stars Spain’s Roberto Enríquez as a principled real estate businessman who dreams of glory for his beloved Deportivo Leonés, which can come by ousting its president, shady businessman Fernando Saldaña.
But now things get even darker. The big question of Season 1 was whether Hidalgo could save his club without losing his soul. In Season 2, that battle seemingly lost, he’s fighting for his skin, as an investigation closes in on the whereabouts of one Leonés players. “El Leonés is a clean and transparent club,” Hidalgo maintains. That’s even further from the truth. The corruption of Season 2 now broadens to take in money-laundering as the Russian mob reinvests ill-gotten gains in construction of a new stadium, then pulls it support to pressure Hidalgo into announcing the privatization of the club and its purchase by Russian-backed interests.
Season 2 adds more new characters from Latin America, such as a star striker played by Mexico’s Roberto Roman, and Argentinians Agustín Pardella, Juan Martín Gravina and Noelia Castaño.
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