Never Too Young to Dream (2001)
"Atlético San Pancho" (original title)

A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.

Director:

Gustavo Loza

Writer:

Carolina Rivera

Stars:

Héctor Suárez, Plutarco Haza, Lumi Cavazos

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Héctor Suárez	...	Don Pepe
Plutarco Haza	...	Alberto
Lumi Cavazos	...	Rebeca
Rodolfo Arias	...	Mauro's Father
Nora Velázquez	...	Principal
Diego Luna	...	Postman
Rakel Adriana	...	Doña Lucha
Perico 'El Payaso' Loco
Carlos Jesús Perez	...	Teacher
Giovanni Florido	...	Toño
Erich Harrsch	...	Hormiga
Adrián Sol	...	Torta
Valeria Uribe	...	Maru
Pablo Cervera	...	Mauro
Omar Valdez	...	Adrian

Storyline

The little town of San Francisco del Monte, birthplace of football in Mexico, is now a quiet and forgotten place. But Don Pepe, an old janitor form the town's school, is trying to unite a group of kids into a football team, in order to give San Francisco del Monte the recognition it deserves. Their strength and love for the game will lead them to play a championship game, in the most important field of Mexico City: Estadio Azteca.

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Plot Keywords:

football | mexico | janitor | school | mexico city | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport

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Details

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

5 October 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Never Too Young to Dream

Filming Locations:

Mexico

Company Credits

Production Co:

Altavista Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Mimic...

This film wants to be all and ends to be nothing but a tremendous coca cola publicity. Watching this film comes to mind a bunch of sports movies, of course the main reference is Michael Ritchie's *THE BAD NEWS BEARS* mixed with some ROCKY's "times of truth". Nothing is original in this derivative piece of flick, everything is stolen from other movies, specially from the american sports films. In other hand, *ATLETICO SAN PANCHO* carries the burden of a misconstructed screenplay filled with common places and not even one smart idea. Children are just fuzzy creatures in this one, they are just stereotypicall and vacuom creatures. This mimic piece of film adds nothing to mexican cinema. Hope the negatives burn in hell.