Greenland’s eight-team championship playoff centers on scrappy teams and big-hearted underachievers in an obscure football world. The film follows B-67 from Nuuk and their rivalry with Nagdlunguak from Ilulissat. Life in the world’s largest island is shown as especially tough, with scenes of the captain hunting seals and dealing with giant icebergs near a pitch. Half the team misses the week-long playoffs because cancelled flights force longer, less convenient boat travel. The short summer season restricts outdoor play to a few thawed weeks, and travel problems make it difficult to schedule games beyond local sides. Official sanction for the national side appears reluctant, limiting broader competition.
"As the football-industrial complex churns out ever more eyeball-aimed product, precision engineered to trigger either triumphalism or nostalgia (or both), there's occasionally room for stories like this about Greenland's eight team championship playoff: scrappy chronicles of big-hearted underachievers in obscure corners of the football universe."
"We see the team captain, Patrick Frederiksen (a charismatic presence and one of the documentary's main characters), moodily hunting for seals, giant icebergs floating yards away from the edge of a football pitch, and the non-appearance of half the team for the week-long playoffs due to cancelled flights (travelling by boat takes longer, but is more reliable)."
"The shortness of the playing season, it is regularly pointed out, is one of the main factors hampering Greenland's football, as there are only a few short summer weeks where the place thaws enough for outdoor matches. The aforementioned travel issues mean, moreover, it's almost impossible to arrange games against anyone other than local sides."
"It's perhaps unsurprising, therefore, that the footballing powers-that-be appear reluctant to give official sanction to Greenland's national side; they were rec"
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