VICTORY (12/13)

[nojyt]

Did any of the English players ask those Poles and Czechs if they're ok with being sent back to the labour camp instead of escaping? LOL - happy ending FAIL.

[Littlelambism]

The German soldiers would be shooting with their guns by now!

[Apeksim]

The crowd looks more 70s/80s than 40s..

[MegaRobert444]

Oh, I say Germans smell like cabbage!

[SilenceIKissYou]

Fearing arrest & court-martial for applauding Fernandes' bicycle-kick goal, Major Karl Von Steiner slipped away from the German delegation as it left the stadium. He somehow made it to Switzerland, where he helped make German-language radio broadcasts denouncing Hitler and Nazism. These broadcasts, heard in Germany, helped turned German public sentiment against the Nazi regime. He settled in Austria, and refused to ever watch another soccer match. He died in 1964.

[SilenceIKissYou]

The French Resistance helped Lewis Fernandes escape to England following the match. After the war, he accepted a contract offer by a Brazilian first-division club. Fernandes became a Brazilian citizen, changed his name to Pele, and became one of soccer's greatest all-time players. He is still alive and lives in Sao Paolo.

[SilenceIKissYou]

Colby returned to England soon after the escape, with the help of the French Resistance, and took part in the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. He resumed his soccer career with West Ham United after the war, playing two seasons until retiring in 1947. He went on to become West Ham's head coach, and later on head coach of England's national team.

He became Sir John Colby when Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his distinguished military and soccer achievements. He died in 1983.

[SilenceIKissYou]

Hatch remained in Paris for the duration of the war, helping Renee in her work with the French Resistance. After the war, he and Renee married, and he was offered a contract by a second-division French soccer club. Hatch took to his new sport well, playing several seasons as goalkeeper for the club.

Hatch retired from soccer in 1954. He and Renee lived a quiet life as farmers in the French countryside. Hatch died in 2001 at age 86. Renee died the following year.

[SilenceIKissYou]

earlier in the film, it was said the match would be played on August 15 ... and everyone in the crowd is wearing coats and stuff ... okaaaaay ...

[JohnAdams198805]

no crime in signing the french national athem the nazi germans are wankers

[JohnAdams198805]

nice to see that german officer clapping peles overhead kick in the net

[LordSabbat666]

O mais loko é que o filme tem jogadores profissionais :P

[LordSabbat666]

Brasil é massa bagario!

Pelé mostra bons talentos para o cinema!

O filme é bem interessante! Gosto do Max nesse filme também!

[JohnAdams198805]

pele showed what a top pro he is with the goal he scored

[KtBdOKW]

Marseilles ???,

Rule Britania would have fitted better,

LOL

[CEngelbrecht]

(Part 2)

Entendez-vous dans les campagnes (Do you hear in the countryside)

Mugir ces féroces soldats? (Those ferocious soldiers roaring?)

Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras (They come up to our arms)

Égorger nos fils, nos compagnes! (To slit the throats of our sons and wives!)

[CEngelbrecht]

(Part 3)

Aux armes, citoyens (To arms, citizens)

Formez vos bataillons (Form your battalions)

Marchons, marchons! (Let's march, let's march!)

Qu'un sang impur (May an impure blood)

Abreuve nos sillons! (Water our furrows!)

[CEngelbrecht]

That took me a long bloddy time to get that one, that the crowd is singing a spitting rebellion at the face of the nazis.