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Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia is helming a Prime Video doc about the latter days of tennis legend Roger Federer‘s career, which was originally intended as a home movie.

“In 2002, I was playing for Independiente and knew that Manchester United were interested in me; we had arranged a meeting. Then Middlesbrough approached my agent, they wanted to see me before United.

Hearts star Cammy Devlin has the missing Lionel Messi piece from a collection that’s about to go for a whopping £8million.

Yamila Rodríguez has been facing a tough week. The 25 year old Argentine player that plays for Boca Juniors club has shared on Instagram some of the struggles she’s faced when occupying such a public sphere, particularly after a photo of her went viral following Argentina’s debut match where they lost against Italy. When, where, and how to watch the 2023 Women’s World CupLinda Caicedo: Meet the Colombian soccer star playing tonightBrazil’s Marta is playing her last World Cup; she’s out for gloryControversy began when a photo of the tattoos on her legs began circulating the media.

Gerard Piqué, Shakira’s ex and retired footballer, was recently spotted with his two kids, Sasha and Milan, at an Italian restaurant called La Leggenda Pizzeria in Miami Beach. The ex-Barcelona defender, currently in the United States to spend quality time with his children, has a soft spot for this authentic pizzeria that serves traditional Neapolitan pizza.La Leggenda Pizzeria is run by Master Pizzaiolo and Pizza World Champion Giovanni Gagliardi.

Disgraced former tennis champion Boris Becker is to be profiled and interviewed in an Apple TV+ two-part doc from Oscar winners Alex Gibney and John Battsek.

The ball from England's 1986 World Cup defeat to Argentina is being put up for sale for £3 million. The quarter-final game at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico ended England's chances of World Cup glory and is remembered for Diego Maradona's Hand of God goal which gave the South American side the lead before it finished 2-1 - the game's referee 78-year-old Ali Bin Nasser kept hold of the ball and is now planning to sell it at auction in London. According to The Sun, Adam Gascoigne of Graham Budd Auctions - the company running the sale - said: "Unlike today where you have a multi-ball system at games, this was the only one used in the match from start to finish.

passed away on Tuesday (September 13) at the age of 91.Now, his long-time legal adviser, Patrick Jeanneret, has confirmed that the director died by assisted suicide, having suffered from “multiple disabling pathologies”.“He could not live like you and me, so he decided with a great lucidity, as he had all his life, to say, ‘Now, it’s enough,’” Jeanneret told The New York Times, noting that assisted suicide is both legal and tightly regulated in Switzerland.He went on to explain that Godard wanted to die with dignity, and “that was exactly what he did”.The Franco-Swiss director was known for movies such as Breathless (1960) and Contempt (1963), which pushed cinematic boundaries.His films showcased handheld camera work, jump cuts and existential dialogue that revolutionised French cinema and filmmaking in the 1960s.Also known for his witticisms, Godard famously once observed that “a film consists of a beginning, a middle and an end, though not necessarily in that order.”Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs director Quentin Tarantino was said to be heavily influenced by the late filmmaker, having been initiated by Godard and his Paris-based contemporaries.Other filmmakers have since taken to social media to pay tribute to Godard, with Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver) recently describing him as “one of the most influential, iconoclastic film-makers of them all”.“It was ironic that he himself revered the Hollywood studio film-making system, as perhaps no other director inspired as many people to just pick up a camera and start shooting,” he wrote.Director Asif Kapadia, who has helmed films and documentaries including Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona, also paid tribute to the late filmmaker, simply writing: “The King is Dead.”

Manori Ravindran International Editor Neon, Double Agent and the U.K.’s Film4 are partnering on the documentary “2073,” from “Amy” director Asif Kapadia. A vague description of the film indicates that it will “tackle some of the biggest challenges imperiling our future.” The synopsis continues: “Kapadia’s decision to create a genre-bending thriller set in a dystopian future was inspired by Chris Marker’s iconic 1962 featurette ‘La Jetée’ about a time traveler who risks his life to change the course of history and save the future of humanity.” The companies will co-finance and executive produce the project with Kapadia and George Chignell producing. Davis Guggenheim, Nicole Stott, and Jonathan Silberberg will act as executive producers for Concordia Studio alongside Riz Ahmed’s Left Handed Films.

wrote that the card was “in my estimation the finest known example in the world,” noting its perfect centering and color, with only the “slightest evidence of paper toning.”The auction house had predicted the card would fetch more than $10 million.Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports auctions, wrote in a July statement that the piece of memorabilia’s exceptional SGC grade, “plus the fact it has documented provenance from the most storied find in hobby history, puts this card in a category of its own.“The card more than lives up to Rosen’s claim when viewed in person,” Ivy said.Mantle, who died in 1995, was a switch-hitter with the New York Yankees for all of his 18-year career. He helped the Bronx Bombers win seven World Series titles and was a three-time American League MVP, making it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.

Netflix have announced a tell-all Robbie Williams documentary that will explore his addictions, affairs and his reunions with former band Take That. The multi-part series will be released in 2023 and will be an honest exploration of all the highs and lows of his 30-year career. It was announced that the series will cover how Robbie dealt with the media scrutiny, addictions, affairs, recoveries and moreThe impact fame had on his mental health and relationships will also be explored in the upcoming series.

Netflix has put a doc series about British pop superstar Robbie Williams into production, as its UK original series chief Anne Mensah doubled down on the streamer’s commitment to the UK despite the coming cost of living crisis and concerns over share price drop impacts.

Naman Ramachandran Lorton Entertainment, whose credits include documentaries, Asif Kapadia’s Cannes title “Diego Maradona” and Matt Smith’s Amazon Prime Video film “Rooney,” has launched a content fund.The Lorton Media Fund, which will invest in drama and documentary across film and television, is a Jersey-based vehicle, which is administered by Oakbridge Fund Services (Jersey) Limited. It will be one of the largest private investment funds focused on U.K.

K.J. Yossman Asif Kapadia, the Oscar-winning guest curator for 2022’s Sheffield DocFest, has unveiled his program A Documentary Journey with Asif Kapadia.Kapadia, who is best known for his documentaries ‘Amy,’ about Amy Winehouse, and ‘Senna’ about Brazilian motor-racing champion Ayrton Senna, opened the last in-person iteration of Sheffield DocFest in 2019 with his feature about legendary Argentine footballer Diego Maradona.The festival, now in its 29th year, was digital only in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.Featuring “films that have had significant impact for him, inspiring his own style and creative choices as a filmmaker,” Kapadia has selected eight documentaries for the series, including “When We Were Kings” about Muhammad Ali (pictured above).

Tottenham manager Antonio Conte has dropped a hint over transfer plans for Harry Kane amid the long-standing interest from Manchester United and Manchester City. Either side of his Euro 2020 exploits last summer, the England captain was priced out of a move to the Etihad Stadium.

Paolo Sorrentino won the Foreign Language Oscar, as it was known then, in 2014 with his film The Great Beauty. He returns to the frame this year with The Hand of God, perhaps his most personal picture, which is nominated for Best International Feature. This lightly fictionalized tale of Sorrentino’s own youth in Naples, as he grappled with family tragedy, celebrated Diego Maradona’s arrival at his local football team, and took his first steps into his love of cinema, stars newcomer Filippo Scotti as Fabi Schisa, a teenager struggling to find his place in the world.

The little town of Calchin is lost in the vastness of the Pampas, the great grasslands that feeds the people of Argentina’s cities.

Manchester City know they already have one thing in their favour as they enter the race for Julian Alvarez.

By any yardstick, Paolo Sorrentino has had a lot of good luck in his directing career. His first film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2001 and the next six competed at Cannes, a residency that brought an Oscar nomination for 2013’s The Great Beauty. But Sorrentino does not take his good fortune for granted. In Netflix’s The Hand of God he reflects on the twist of fate that saved his life as a teenager in the 1980s, when a freak accident claimed the lives of both his parents. Starring Filippo Scotti as Fabietto, the film is a lightly fictionalized account of the artist as an introspective young man, with a Sony Walkman on his hip and an obsession with S.S.C. Napoli footballer Diego Maradona…

Paolo Sorrentino returns to the Oscar fray eight years after he bagged the International Feature prize for The Great Beauty. His latest film, The Hand of God, has been one of the buzz films of the fall festivals, taking home the Venice Grand Jury Prize and also playing at Telluride and London.

By Frank Pingue(Reuters) - A year after Diego Maradona died from heart failure, Spotify said on Tuesday it will launch a six-episode podcast exploring the final days of the Argentine soccer great, whose passing raised questions about his medical treatment. Featuring never-before-heard interviews with those who were closest to the captain of the 1986 World Cup-winning Argentina team, "The Last Days of Maradona" will be released on Nov.

A new sports biopic series tells the extraordinary life of a man Gary Lineker described as “one of the greatest footballers of all time” – Diego Maradona.

Riyad Mahrez is closing in on a slice of history after his brace in Algeria’s 6-1 demolition of Niger in World Cup qualification.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV Plus has greenlit a timely four-part documentary series about the rise and fall of former Nissan and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn.

“I don’t like reality anymore. Reality is lousy,” teenager Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) says mournfully at a crucial, spiritually lonely moment in Paolo Sorrentino’s evocative new coming of age story, “The Hand Of God.” Sitting on a mountain, looking to the sky, the heavens, for answers, Fabietto should know.

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorNetflix has unveiled the first look at Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God.”The film, which will have its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on Sept.

Kelly Smith has been named alongside Pele, Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi as a footballing great, but the former England women’s skipper remains as humble as she was the first time she kicked a ball. She’s one of the most accomplished players around with four titles in the Premier League, three in the FA Cup and one in the Champions League, plus 117 caps for the Lionesses – that’s two more caps than David Beckham earned with the Lions.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine prosecutor began hearing evidence on Monday involving seven people accused of contributing to the death of soccer player Diego Maradona. Maradona, the revered former Boca Juniors and Napoli star who had alcohol and drug addictions for many years, died last Nov.

EXCLUSIVE: Asif Kapadia has signed with Cinetic Media for management in all areas.

In a year full of tragedy, one of the most far-reaching losses was that of football icon Diego Maradona.

Diego Maradona's medical team acted in an "inappropriate, deficient and reckless way", an investigation into his death has found. The Argentinian football star died in November last year, sending shockwaves through the soccer-loving country and around the world.

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Anna Marie de la Fuente Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks Int’l has snapped up worldwide sales rights to “The Death of God,” the much-coveted documentary about Argentina’s iconic soccer star Diego Maradona.“After a fierce bidding war, we are thrilled to have closed this deal on such a powerful, untold story,” said FilmSharks’ Guido Rud. “It’s a remarkable addition to our Berlin lineup,” he noted, adding that he’ll be showing some footage from the doc during EFM.

Recognised children:Rumoured offspring:The brunette, who was also adopted as a child, insisted in a recent Instagram post: 'My search was always the same, to resolve my identity and know if Diego Maradona is my biological father. 'This is a universal right which everyone in the world has.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s tribute to soccer legend Diego Maradona, was crowned as one of the most liked posts on Instagram, following the death of the Argentinian star in November.The 35-year-old beloved player wanted to pay his respects, by sharing a black and white photo with Maradona, describing the legacy of “one of the best of all times” and assuring his fans that he will never be forgotten.