When your team loses funding, just smuggle for the mob. Sports drama meets criminal chaos.
Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestThe provincial football team Rodina loses funding at the height of the season and crashes out of the championship because its owner, the mayor of the city, decides to sell the club. For the sake of salvation, the guys make a deal with a local authority and agree to transport contraband to China. But everything does not go according to plan, and the players become debtors of authority, hide from the Chinese mafia, and the team captain suddenly becomes the owner of the club.
Acting
Roman Evdokimov carries the captain's desperation like a man drowning slowly.
Production
Gritty provincial Russia feels lived-in, suffocating, weirdly beautiful.
Writing
Tight 30-min episodes that never waste your time. Russian TV doing more with less.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reflects real struggles of Russian provincial football clubs where mayors often control teams as political tools, not sporting institutions.
Creator Ivan Plechev reportedly developed this after researching actual cases of amateur clubs used as fronts for smuggling operations in the Far East.
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