The Team Comes to Zimbabwe!

The Team, already playing in countries around the globe is readying for its Zimbabwe premiere.

The Team Zimbabwe airs tonight at 7:30 pm. The 13 episode series will run for 13 weeks.  The Team Zimbabwe is an exciting and humorous new football drama that follows two Zimbabwean youth, Pablo and Beans, in an ethnically diverse mining town, as they strive to work together and pursue their football dreams. 

Their story begins when a well-known club team, The Big City Bullets, comes to their small town to recruit new players, but will only recruit from official teams.  Neither Pablo nor Beans is on an official team.  The boys take up the challenge and set out to organize their own football team, The Dreamers, despite the differences between them. Pablo is a city youth who imagines himself as something of a hometown hero and who is often more interested in girls than in the hard work involved in organizing a football team. Beans has just arrived from his family farm with his sister in tow and struggles to balance his dream with his familial responsibilities.

In order to succeed, The Dreamers must find a coach, a sponsor, a field, and even players!  More importantly, however, they must learn how to put aside their differences and play as a team.  Can they be ready in time to showcase their talents before the Big City Bullets?  Or is it all for nothing?  Tune in Fridays at 7:30 pm and find out!

The Team is Search for Common Ground’s flagship television program, with local versions on air or in production in 16 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. We work with local writers and actors to make character and story lines relevant and relatable to each audience.

The Zimbabwe series is produced with funding from The U.S. Department of State: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and Co-produced with Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC).

“The work that Search for Common Ground is doing with the groundbreaking television project, The Team, matches our aims. Football is a remarkable tool which can break down barriers, foster understanding, and teach people valuable lessons on a wide range of social issues.”

– Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive,The Premier League

For more information contact Zimbabwe Country Director, Eunice Njovana, enjovana@sfcg.org