Louisiana
‘God. Family. Football.’ Louisiana high school football team’s story coming to Amazon Freevee
Denny Duron is a legendary highschool soccer coach who preaches a easy mantra to his gamers: “God first, household second, and soccer third.”
This season, Duron got here out of a 30-year retirement in an try to guide the soccer program he based at Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana, again to the nationwide stage.
Amazon Freevee has agreed to air an unscripted, coming-of-age docuseries following the staff’s 2022 season with the title “God. Household. Soccer.”
The sequence will characteristic the non-public tales of Evangel’s gamers and coaches set in opposition to the backdrop of the 2022 Louisiana highschool soccer season.
Duron returned to the staff after Evangel Christian had the worst season in class historical past final yr, ending 3-8.
“When it was clear that we had entered a season the place we had been actually beginning over as a soccer staff, I couldn’t resist the chance to be part of it. … It felt identical to 1989 once we began the primary time,” Duron mentioned in a press release. “I imagine God known as me then, and I imagine He’s calling me once more.”
The Eagles, who’ve received 14 state championships prior to now 20 years, have already matched final season’s win whole, going 3-3 so far.