All stars - De serie

Can you figure out what this title translates to in English? If you can’t, off to the short bus with you, sparky! Based on the 1997 movie by Jean van de Velde, the series deals with Dutch soccer players and their problems dealing with fame, opponents, and each other. For example, goalkeeper Willem (Thomas Acda) has a wife, kids, and a business, but he’s tried of the wife and kids… not the business. Dirk Zeelenberg is Bram, a gay team member, Kasper van Kooten is the perennial ‘encouragement award’ candidate, Kees Boot is the bad boy of the team, and Raymbi Sambo is the locker room clown. So how good is the series? Well, it won the International Emmy award for Best Drama in 2000, so suffice to say it doth not stinketh up the joint.