A Calabrian farmer from Palmi organizes a fundraiser to purchase an ex-AC Milan star footballer for his local team, US Palmese 1912.

[1] The idea for the film came from a childhood memory of the Manetti Bros.: at an amateur football match, a man joked that if everyone in town pooled their money, they could raise enough funds to buy Diego Maradona for the local team.

Marco Manetti stated, "This was a formative memory for us, this crazy old man wanting to collect enough money to buy the best player in the world.

"[13] Valerio Sammarco of Cinematografo gave the film three out of five stars, writing that "the spirit that has always animated [the Manetti Bros.'] various works does not fail, the ambition to make oneself loved by chasing apparently impossible stories, like this one of Etienne (a curious mix between Balotelli and Leão...) and of Palmi.

"[16] Federico Gironi of ComingSoon.it gave the film two-and-a-half out of five stars, calling it "a feel-good movie that is a bit confused and not very original", drawing parallels with Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins.