Goal II: Living the Dream is the second part of the football film trilogy Goal! and it was released on 9 February 2007 in the United Kingdom and 29 August 2008 in the United States. The film depicts fictional events in the 2005-06 football season, involving Real Madrid, Newcastle United and other major European clubs like Arsenal and Barcelona. Goal! II carries on from Goal! where Santiago Munez, who is now a successful football player and gets transferred to Real Madrid from Newcastle. He has a good start for Real Madrid as he substitutes former teammate Gavin Harris, who is in a bad form,... in the team in several matches. But then life starts to get complicated when his half-brother learns that he is related to Santiago and shows him a picture of his mother. His mother left his father years ago and now lives in Spain. When his brother tells him this Santiago drives off. His life then goes downhill. When he gets the first chance to start for Real Madrid, he screws up the match by getting sent-off. He gets into a argument with his girlfriend who leaves to England, frustrated. He fires Glen Foy as his agent. Things get worse when he gets injured.
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| Release date: | February 9, 2007 |
| Directed by: | Jaume Collet-Serra |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mark Huffam, Matt Barrelle, Mike Jefferies |
| Editor: | Niven Howie |
| Music by: | Stephen Warbeck |
| Cinematography: | Flavio Martínez Labiano |
| Screenplay by: | Terry Loane, Adrian Butchart, Mike Jefferies |
| Estimated budget: | $30,000,000 |