10 Best Football TV Series To Stream While The Season Is On Hiatus
7. The Kicks
Available on: Amazon Prime
Dark, gritty hooligan dramas may be good for some football fans, but what if you're isolating at home with football-mad kids? Well, don't worry because Amazon has you covered there too.
Created by American World Cup winning star Alex Morgan, based on her series of books of the same name and featuring a cameo from the Orlando Pride striker as herself, The Kicks focuses on a California middle school girls' football team in the middle of a losing streak and the star player whose family have just moved to the area, leaving behind her successful team back east.
Rivalries, friendships and important lessons about the value of teamwork and giving it your all ensue.
Yes, The Kicks, which grew from Amazon's pilot season where viewers voted for which pilot episodes the platform should pick up for series, doesn't exactly break any new ground for a kids TV show. But it is affable, well made and has positive things to say to its young audience, not least that becoming a global football star is just as valid a dream for girls as for boys and that maybe one of them can be the next Alex Morgan.
There's no news yet, though, on whether a streaming rival plans to commission a series based on Steve Bruce's kids books.