The movie ‘Mexico 86’, starring Mexican actor Diego Luna, will have its premiere on June 5, a week before the inauguration of the 2026 World Cup in Mexico City, entertainment giant Netflix announced Wednesday.
The revelation of the premiere date brought with it the release of the first trailer in which Luna, who is also executive producer of the film, plays Martín de la Torre, a Mexican bureaucrat who does everything possible to ensure that Mexico hosts the World Cup for the second time in 1986.
“In 1986 the best World Cup in the history of World Cups was played: in Mexico,” says Luna in the voice of his character at the beginning of this preview framed in an unforgettable episode of soccer with the triumph of Argentina and the famous goals: the ‘Hand of God’ and the ‘Goal of the Century’ by Argentine Diego Maradona at the Azteca Stadium, now Banorte.
Although the field was the most prominent scene of the 1986 World Cup, the script written by Daniel Krauze and Gabriel Ripstein, who is also the director of the film, promises a different approach, as it unmasks the forced and corrupt negotiations behind this championship that also requires the talent to produce money.
The film also features the president of the Televisa television network, Emilio Azcárraga (Daniel Giménez Cacho), nicknamed in the trailer “The Most Powerful Man in Mexico” for his influence in the entertainment industry at the time.
Luna and Giménez Cacho make up the star cast, although the participation of Karla Souza (Susana Gómez Mont), Memo Villegas, Álvaro Guerrero and Juan Pablo Fernández, whose roles are not yet known, is also noteworthy.
This is one of Netflix’s most anticipated Mexican productions, reported Agencia EFE, as it fuses World Cup fever and the keys to how a Mexican managed to host the World Cup in Mexico for the second time, an edition that also had Colombia as the country of choice, but which declined because it did not meet FIFA’s requirements.
