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Take the Ball, Pass the Ball

The Making of the Greatest Team in the World

7.9/ 1020181h 47m

Documentary

Take the Ball, Pass the Ball is the definitive story of the greatest football team ever assembled. For four explosive years, Pep Guardiola's Barça produced the greatest football in history, seducing fans around the world. In this exclusive, first-hand account of events between 2008 and 2012, the players themselves reveal the tension of the bitter Guardiola-Mourinho rivalry, the emotion of Abidal's fight back from cancer to lift the European Cup and how Messi, the best footballer the world's ever seen, was almost rejected by Barça as a 13-year-old.

Directed by Duncan McMath

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Pep Guardiola

Pep Guardiola

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Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi

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Xavi

Xavi

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Andrés Iniesta

Andrés Iniesta

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Gerard Piqué

Gerard Piqué

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Sergio Busquets

Sergio Busquets

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Carles Puyol

Carles Puyol

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Thierry Henry

Thierry Henry

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