10 Best Football TV Series To Stream While The Season Is On Hiatus

Available on: Netflix

Even in standalone films football biopics are fairly thin on the ground compared to those about, say, iconic boxers. It would take a really big footballing character, then, to sustain not just a single feature, but an eight-hour Netflix drama series. Step forward Boca Juniors striker Carlos Tevez.

Tevez is no stranger to drama and controversy, but this series takes place years before murky financial dealings saw this world class forward surprisingly show up at relegation-threatened West Ham and even longer before a switch from United to City saw the "noisy neighbours" erecting a cheekily provocative "Welcome to Manchester" billboard to announce the signing.

Instead, Apache takes us back to Tevez's youth where football was his way out of the impoverished, drugs and crime-ridden "Fuerte Apache" barrio of Ciudadella. Beginning with the burns that Tevez suffered as an infant and which still leave him scarred to this day, the series then dramatises his teenage years, intertwining a story of the criminal gangs in Fuerte Apache with the young Carlos' rise to play for Boca.

Tevez himself has a large hand in the production, but that does not mean it pulls any punches with the hardships of the environment of his childhood. And, with the series ending with him at 17 there is still plenty of potential for that move to West Ham if they plan on a second season.