So the slight but amusing "México 86," which rides a buoyantly manic performance by Diego Luna, serves as a behind-the-scenes ...

Winning a World Cup is impressive; securing the right to host one may be even more so. Netflix’s new film Mexico 86 (El Mundial de México) isn’t about goals, legendary players, or Diego Maradona’s ...

Diego Luna enlivens Gabriel Ripstein's 'Mexico 86,' a film that spans over a decade of shady soccer business, but doesn't cut ...

Luna plays a shyster power-player who greases palms and politically manipulates Mexico into hosting the world’s biggest ...

Passion for the game of soccer starts at home. For one South Bay family, fútbol is what they do and who they are. Sunnyvale's ...

The story of how Mexico secured the 1986 World Cup becomes a Netflix comedy in "México 86," which resonates as the 2026 ...

In 1971, Mexico mobilized a grassroots campaign to skirt around dismay from FIFA in order to host the first-ever Women’s World Cup (outlined in James Erskine’s electrifying documentary “Copa 71”).

Diego Luna plays an ambitious soccer enthusiast who is trying to secure the World Cup for Mexico a second time.

In 'Mexico 86,' on Netflix starting Friday, Luna plays a fictional man in a partially truthful story about how the country defeated more powerful adversaries and surmounted the chaos of the time to ...