10 Best Football TV Series To Stream While The Season Is On Hiatus
8. Puerta 7
Available on: Netflix
Looking for quality football content on Netflix can mean digging a little deeper and looking beyond their English-language content. The streaming giant produces an impressive amount of TV for football-mad Latin American audiences and unsurprisingly it's a lot more focused on the beautiful game than the platform's US programming.
The latest Latin American Netflix original is this show about the "barra bravas", Argentina's equivalent of Italian ultras: hardcore fans passionately dedicated to shows of support for their club and violence towards their rivals.
Coming from Martin Zimmerman (a writer on fellow Netflix hit Ozark), Puerta 7 focuses on the fictional Ferroviarios club and the most extreme fans based around the stadium's Gate 7. A stabbing of the Ferroviarios barra bravas' leader prompts the club to hire a young lawyer with connections to Ferroviarios history to act as new security chief and tackle the epidemic of violent fan factions.
Exploring the darker side of the passion of football fandom and the way it can ruin lives, Puerta 7 is football story as organised crime drama. Anyone who has been absorbed by English football hooligan dramas like The Football Factory will find something to attract them in its Argentinian equivalent.