Kuno Becker, who played Santiago Munez in the Goal! franchise, has revealed he has written a script for a fourth movie.
The first film tracked Munez's journey from an illegal immigrant in the USA to signing for Newcastle United in the Premier League, as it broadcasted the club, the area and its infrastructure to a global audience.
The second film saw Munez join Real Madrid and rub shoulders with the 'Galacticos' but the third movie, which saw Munez miss out on the 2006 World Cup with Mexico, flopped at the Box Office.
Becker now has his own production company and has revisited Munez's story by writing a script for a fourth film, detailing how he has transitioned from a player to become a coach.
However, after discussing it with the rights holders of the franchise, the 42-year-old admits there are many barriers for him to overcome before they are able to produce something tangible.
"I actually wrote a script for Goal 4. My associates, my partners in production company, think it's great," Becker told SPORTbible.
"I didn't write it myself, I wrote it with writers and with a professional structure. It's a story that makes justice to the other two because the third one is just bad and had no direction.
"I wrote the Goal 4 movie because I think it's a beautiful story. It picks up Santi as a trainer and it's a life lesson about failure and success. I think it's very moving and so do the people around me that I worked with.
"But they're still thinking about money [regarding the rights] - which is the wrong way to think in a movie. You've got to trust each other and if it's successful, everything else comes as a result.
"I wrote it and I took my time with it because I felt the third one was such a disappointment. I'm not going to fight with my life to do it, I may try again but I already tried.
"There's people with the rights who are like, 'If I don't receive this amount of money'. If you're thinking like that, f**k it I'll just write another movie and make something else.
"I think the worldwide audience that the first two movies have, they need some closure of the story and it would be nice to see what happened with the characters but with a good story that has something to say and respects the first two.
"The script that I wrote for Goal 4 is actually very commercial but it has a lot of feeling and a lot of heart - which is what I think made the first one work so well. I may try again but I'm not going to keep trying all my life.
"At the end of the day I would love to do it but I'm not going to be begging these a**holes to do something they don't want to do."
