trilogy is a series of football films directed by Danny Cannon, Jaume Collet-Serra and Andrew Morahan.
Santiago Muñez (Kuno Becker), a skilled association football player, is the son of a gardener and lives in the Barrio section of Los Angeles, having illegally entered the United States from Mexico ten years earlier.
Besides gardening with his father, he works as a busboy in a Chinese restaurant whose ultimate dream is to play football professionally.
One day his skills are noticed by Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane), a former Newcastle player and scout who works as a car mechanic.
Glen manages to get him a tryout with Newcastle United, which has recently signed a new player named Gavin Harris (Alessandro Nivola).
Glen convinces the team manager that Santi needs a month's trial to show his full potential.
Santiago does not reveal to the club nurse, Roz Harmison (Anna Friel), that he has asthma.
His teammate Harris discovers what happened in the reserve game and makes Santiago explain it to the manager.
In the dying minutes of injury time, Santi assists Harris in scoring the equaliser by finally passing the ball to him, to make it 2–2.
In the third installment of the football drama trilogy Goal!, Kuno Becker returns as Mexican footballer Santiago Munez, who, along with his best friends and England national team players Charlie Braithwaite (Leo Gregory) and Liam Adams (JJ Feild), are selected for their respective national teams at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals in Germany.
All three best friends and Braithwaite's new love interest and soon to be fiancée Sophia Tardelli (played by Kasia Smutniak) suffer a car accident which puts Munez out of contention through injuries.
Meanwhile, Liam Adams discovers to his horror that he has a new daughter, Bella, from former love interest June (played by Anya Lahiri).
Liam scores against Sweden (2–2), assisted by a header from Charlie, and England qualify for the knock-out stages.
Italy beat France on penalties in the final to take home the crown of champions of the world.
England crash out of the quarter-finals against Portugal as Adams misses a crucial penalty against Portuguese keeper Ricardo while Cristiano Ronaldo converts.