The documentary “Football Must Go On” about the Donetsk football club “Shakhtar” won the Sports Emmy Awards. Radio Maximum tells details about the film.
The award is reported on the Shakhtar website. The solemn award ceremony took place on May 22 in the USA.
The tape won in the nomination “Documentary series”,beating out Netflix's Formula 1: Drive to Survive, HBO's baseball series Hard Knocks and Apple TV's reality wrestling show Monster Factory.
More about the film:
The series consists of four episodes, it was filmed by the company Paramount+, and the directors were the Ukrainian Volodymyr Mula and American Alex Gale. The tape tells about the performances of the football club in the Champions League 2022-2023 during the full-scale war in Ukraine.
Then the players under the leadership of the head coach Igor Jovičević took third place in the group with “Real”, “Leipzig” and “Celtic” and went to the playoffs of the Europa League. There they first defeated Rennes, and in the round of 16 they lost to Feyenoord.
Ukrainian viewers can watch Football Must Go On on the MEGOGO platform.
Sports Emmy Awards is part of the International Emmy Awards. The awards are presented to the best American sports television projects, including series that are related to sports.