A World Cup mystery no journalist cracked—until one fan grew up.
Fifteen years ago, when our national soccer team entered the field for the Americas Cup final, the successful coach, the Engineer Erramuspe, never showed up. Two days later he resigned his position for "personal reasons". Since then journalists have been trying to interview him and to know about what happened but they have all failed. When everybody assumes the truth will never be known, a young reporter who was only a child when the Engineer lead the team to a World cup final, finally gets the interview....
Acting
Jorge Denevi's Engineer—monumental restraint, one wrong blink and it collapses.
Writing
The interview structure that finally earns its answers.
Director
Diego Arsuaga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Uruguay's 1995 Copa América win remains their last major trophy; the film weaponizes real national longing.
Director Diego Arsuaga modeled the Engineer's disappearance on actual unexplained coaching resignations in South American football, including several rumored to involve gambling debts or political pressure.
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