Foot 2 Rue
Five children find community through street football.
Foot 2 Rue (also known as Street Football) is a French–Italian animated television series that originally aired from December 31, 2005, to July 10, 2010, on France 3. Created by Marco Beretta and Serge Rosenzweig, the show follows a diverse group of five children who form a street football team and find camaraderie through the game. A fourth season was announced in July 2019 and premiered in February 2022.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Animation
- sports
- children
- Creator
- Marco Beretta, Serge Rosenzweig
- Inspired by
- La Compagnia dei Celestini
- it
- uk
- Компанія «Целестин» by Stefano Benni
- Composer
- Akhenaton
- Country
- France, Italy
- Seasons
- 5
- Episodes
- 130
- Network
- France 3
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Did You Know?
- An official video game, Street Football, was released for the Nintendo DS in 2008.
- An online browser-based football game tied to the series was made available in 2010.
- A 2006 article in Le Parisien called the series a cult series for thousands of children and a phenomenon in schoolyards.
Production and broadcast
The animated series Foot 2 Rue was conceived as an early example of inclusive storytelling, aiming to depict children from working-class neighborhoods playing street football. Co-creator Giorgio Welter shared this vision in a 2023 podcast. The show’s concept came from Stefano Benni’s Italian novel La Compagnia dei Celestini, about kids fleeing an orphanage to compete in a rebellious street football tournament. In Italy, it aired as La Compagnia dei Celestini on Rai 2 starting November 24, 2005, with 26 half-hour episodes broadcast daily on the program Random. Production involved De Mas & Partners, Télé Images, Rai Fiction, and France 3, with animation handled in Milan and Paris. The series was distributed internationally as Foot 2 Rue in France and Street Football in English-speaking markets. A fourth-season revival, Foot 2 Rue – Le Retour, was co-produced by Zodiak Kids and Monello Productions, scheduled for release at the end of 2021.
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