LES ENFANTS DU STADE
Documentary series written and directed by Damien de Pierpont
In co-production with:
RTBF & CFWB
La Province de Liège
Wallonie Image Production
🕑 : 6 episodes of 26 minutes each
Becoming a professional footballer is the most common dream for young boys. Thousands of them in Belgium are training hard in the mad hope of achieving this. Les Enfants du Stade follows some of them for two years, during the pivotal period of adolescence. At this age, the training requirements become more demanding and the selective system more stringent. It will no longer be a game but a life choice. Will their dream resist?