Take the Ball, Pass the Ball
The Making of the Greatest Team in the World
Take the Ball, Pass the Ball is the definitive story of the greatest football team ever assembled. For four explosive years, Pep Guardiola's Barça produced the greatest football in history, seducing fans around the world. In this exclusive, first-hand account of events between 2008 and 2012, the players themselves reveal the tension of the bitter Guardiola-Mourinho rivalry, the emotion of Abidal's fight back from cancer to lift the European Cup and how Messi, the best footballer the world's ever seen, was almost rejected by Barça as a 13-year-old.
Cast
Pep Guardiola
Self
Lionel Messi
Self
Xavi
Self
Andrés Iniesta
Self
Gerard Piqué
Self
Sergio Busquets
Self
Carles Puyol
Self
Thierry Henry
Self
Samuel Eto'o
Self
Víctor Valdés
Self
Jordi Cruyff
Self
Charly Rexach
Self
Eric Abidal
Self
Dani Alves
Self
Eiður Guðjohnsen
Self
Storyline
Take the Ball, Pass the Ball is the definitive story of the greatest football team ever assembled. For four explosive years, Pep Guardiola's Barça produced the greatest football in history, seducing fans around the world. In this exclusive, first-hand account of events between 2008 and 2012, the players themselves reveal the tension of the bitter Guardiola-Mourinho rivalry, the emotion of Abidal's fight back from cancer to lift the European Cup and how Messi, the best footballer the world's ever seen, was almost rejected by Barça as a 13-year-old.
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