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It's All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football
English-language release poster
Spanish#SeAcabó: Diario de las campeonas
Directed byJoanna Pardos
Starring
Edited by
  • Matías Fernández
  • Jordi Gallofré
  • Joan Solsona
Production
company
You First Originals
Distributed byNetflix
Running time
1 November 2024 (2024-11-01)
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

It's All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football (Spanish: #SeAcabó: Diario de las campeonas) is a Spanish sports documentary about the Rubiales case and Las 15 – major controversies about treatment of the Spain women's national football team – released globally on Netflix on 1 November 2024.

Featuring

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Besides archive footage, the film features interviews and discussions with several members of the Spain women's national football team:[1]

Verónica Boquete is also interviewed, though not included in the credits.[2]

Summary

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Following a period of growth, the Spain women's football team won the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup; after the victory in the final, then-Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales kissed player Jenni Hermoso, among other incidents comprising the Rubiales case. This received an instant negative response from onlookers around the world. It's All Over explores – through archive footage, scene-setting, and player discussions and interviews – how Rubiales and the RFEF pressurised Hermoso and other players to normalise Rubiales' behaviour, and how this maltreatment and pressure was typical of the RFEF throughout the history of the women's team. The players discuss previous incidents ranging from discrimination and poor coaching to the reasons behind the withdrawal of fifteen players in 2022 and the impact this had on the team, which set the background for Spain's 2023 World Cup run, and their responses to push for improvements in the national team.[1][3][2]

Production

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The documentary was produced by You First Originals, from the same creative team behind the 2022 docu-series Alexia: Labor Omnia Vincit, which also featured Alexia Putellas. The title It's All Over (in English) or #SeAcabó (in Spanish) comes from the #SeAcabó equality movement that in turn took its name from a tweet posted by Putellas in response to Rubiales.[1][2] The executive producers wrote in El País that even "in a market with 4,000 sports documentaries", they quickly knew that making It's All Over was necessary.[4]

Production of It's All Over lasted almost fifteen months, with the producers having started planning for it when the players became a unified group after the 25 August 2023 RFEF Assembly meeting in which Rubiales refused to resign. In the autumn of 2023, Netflix took proposals from over twenty international production companies to produce a documentary about the Spain women's football team, with You First selected. The company credits their "complete approach" to the storytelling for their selection.[4] Like Alexia was, It's All Over was originally conceived as a three-part miniseries, but this was later changed to be an approximately 90-minute film, setting the production back and forcing changes in the structural planning to account for the different format.[4]

The producers approached other players to take part in the documentary, but were rejected by some who still felt sharing their views could limit their careers, and said that the company itself "received pressure to limit our creative freedom, censorship in the context of the interviews, [and] calls to reconsider the project".[4]

Release

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The film's age guidance ratings were informed by its content of sexual violence. In the UK it was certified 15,[5] and in the US it was rated TV-MA.[6] It was released globally on Netflix on 1 November 2024,[3] a few days after Hermoso received the Sócrates Award for her work as an advocate of gender equality in football.[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Lang, Jamie (2024-10-02). "Netflix Unveils Doc About Spain's World Cup Kissing Scandal, 'It's All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football'". Variety. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  2. ^ a b c Burhan, Asif. "Netflix Releases Documentary On The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
  3. ^ a b "It's All Over: New documentary on the kiss that shook Spanish football". BBC Sport. 2024-11-02. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  4. ^ a b c d Calvo, Luis Miguel; Martínez, Javier (2024-11-03). "#SeAcabó: Diario de las Campeonas". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-06.
  5. ^ "It's All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football". BBFC. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  6. ^ "It's All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  7. ^ Athletic, The (2024-10-28). "Jennifer Hermoso wins the Socrates Award". The Athletic. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
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