Paramount+ launched The Billion Greenback Aim on Monday, a three-part documentary that charts the rise of American soccer and focuses on the buildup to Paul Caligiuri’s aim that kicked off the trendy period for the game within the nation.
The Billion Greenback Aim is basically narrated by late acclaimed journalist Grant Wahl, who sat down for a wide-ranging 150 minute interview in August 2022 and is credited as a supervising producer on the venture. The collection serves as a tribute to Wahl, who died in December 2022, and his decades-long profession protecting American soccer, in addition to the immeasurable impression he left on the game.
Wahl’s pals and different notable individuals in American soccer historical past additionally lend their voices and tales to the docuseries, offering a complete retelling of U.S. soccer historical past from success on the 1950 World Cup via the staff’s 40 12 months World Cup drought.
The Paramount+ unique is at the moment streaming on the platform, and is the newest installment in Tales from the Stunning Sport, Paramount+’s soccer documentary assortment. The gathering consists of Soccer Should Go On and the Emmy-nominated Sir Alex Ferguson: By no means Give Up.
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The Billion Greenback Aim will solely stream on Paramount+ from Monday, Dec. 11. You may watch the trailer under.
About The Billion Greenback Aim
The 1950 World Cup was the setting for one of many match’s greatest upsets — the U.S. males’s nationwide staff’s 1-0 defeat of England. The second ought to have kickstarted the evolution of the game within the nation, however it was as an alternative met with little fanfare after which adopted up by a 40 12 months spell during which the USMNT missed out on the World Cup.
The Billion Greenback Aim chronicles soccer’s strained journey to outlive within the U.S. throughout that 40 12 months drought, from how immigrant communities fostered the game’s development throughout that spell to Pele’s glamorous spell within the North American Soccer League that felt like it will change soccer’s trajectory within the U.S. for good. His departure, although, was quickly adopted by the NASL’s monetary collapse and a years-long interval during which there was no skilled soccer being performed within the nation.
The USMNT’s unlikely qualification for the 1990 World Cup, although, modified that. Caligiuri scored the lone aim within the staff’s World Cup qualifying win over Trinidad and Tobago, starting the trendy period of American soccer that has seen skilled males’s and ladies’s soccer blossom ever since.
