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From its ten-year, $2.5 billion Major League Soccer (MLS) deal to an array of high-profile insider athlete documentaries, Apple TV+ has made a significant play for the streaming sports fan. Its latest effort in that space is Messi\u2019s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend<\/em>, charting Lionel Messi\u2019s long journey to win international football\u2019s top trophy. The four-part series, which premieres today (February 21), features interviews with the iconic Argentinean athlete and insights from fans who made the long journey to Qatar, teammates, coaches, commentators and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an incredible collaboration between an Argentinean team, a U.S. team and a British team,\u201d says Jenna Millman, executive producer on the\u00a0series from Smuggler Entertainment in association with PEGSA. \u201cIt was a global collaboration to make this come to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

That journey began just two weeks before the World Cup\u2019s official start in Doha, Qatar, in 2022. \u201cWe had high hopes and good expectations,\u201d says Millman on charting Messi\u2019s last World Cup\u2014capping off five appearances at the event\u2014\u201cbut we didn\u2019t know what was going to happen next.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the outset, the goal, according to Juan Camilo Cruz Orrego, also an executive producer, was to \u201cshow his 17-year career with the Argentinean national team and his relationship with his country throughout this whole experience. We wanted to follow him in this last segment of this remarkable dream and see if he would achieve it. The series was always about the journey more than the end. We\u2019re lucky that he won, but winning or not winning wouldn\u2019t have changed who he is and what he represents for the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four-parter features a series of intimate conversations with the notoriously shy footballer. \u201cLeo was incredibly generous with his time, both with these capstone interviews before and after [the World Cup], and then allowing us to be with him during these moments to get his predictions and reflections,\u201d Millman says. \u201cHe\u2019s a man of few words but says quite a lot with each one. The key thing was letting him feel comfortable expressing his own story, giving him a platform to tell his own story in his own words. A lot of times, it\u2019s the look on his face, the expression, the moments of silence that speak boatloads about who he actually is as a person, his strength and his character. In this series, you also get to see a raw side of him that you haven\u2019t seen before. Particularly when he\u2019s talking about the pressures that he\u2019s felt. You see that he\u2019s human, and then he\u2019s not just this icon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Millman is no stranger to sports docs, having served as showrunner for the ten-part\u00a0The Dynasty: New England Patriots<\/em>, now streaming on Apple TV+, and HBO\u2019s\u00a0Tiger<\/em>, a two-parter about Tiger Woods. \u201cWhat is so different about this one is this love story between Leo and his country,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is not just a story about a superstar athlete trying to achieve another goal. This is about a hero to his country trying to achieve a goal with his country. We were filming in Argentina simultaneously because we wanted to make sure that we had the pulse of the nation captured in real time as the World Cup was going on. That was how we wanted to hone in on this story. What makes him different? He is, at his core, a boy from Rosario who likes to play ball. That\u2019s what we wanted to bring out. That\u2019s how we start the film, and that\u2019s the message we wanted to leave people with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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