Jacobo Delgado
Director
The Academy (2024)
Season 1
The Academy is the training center of Apolo FC, one of the best soccer clubs in the world, where boys and girls fight for a shared dream: to succeed in the first team. Adrian, captain of the boys' youth team and son of a former club legend, sees his position in the team threatened when his coach Willy discovers Jairo, recently landed from Colombia, with an innate talent. Rivals on the team and roommates, their coexistence becomes hell... and the fact that Adrian is a closeted gay won't make things any easier....
Released April 1, 2024
Episode 46 min
None+
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series, tmdb.homophobia, tmdb.racism, tmdb.inequality, imdb.football-team, imdb.football + 3 more, imdb.female-football-team, imdb.football-club, tmdb.gay-theme
Production Companies: Sony Pictures Television International, Brutal Media, 3Cat
Network: TV3
S1E1 - Episode 1
At the Apolo FC academy, Adrian aspires to become team captain. Complications arise with the arrival of Jairo, a gifted player. Meanwhile, the captaincy of Lara's women's team faces opposition.
April 1, 2024, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
Jairo and Adrian are roommates and rivals on the team. Patterson, the coach of the women's team, scolds Belén for skipping practice. Eventually, the team splits in two and damages the friendship between Lara and Meriem.
April 1, 2024, midnight
S1E3 - Episode 3
Lara applies Patterson's methods and provokes the rejection of her teammates. Meanwhile, Adrian's father signs Jairo, which causes a rupture in the relationship with his son and the distrust of Willy, the coach of the men's team.
April 8, 2024, midnight
S1E4 - Episode 4
Lara injures Meriem in a training session and an investigation is opened to find out if it was an accident. Adrian feels questioned on and off the field, but Jairo considers him a friend and confesses his attraction to Lara.
April 8, 2024, midnight
S1E5 - Episode 5
Willy leaves David on the bench causing his father's anger and giving him the opportunity to leave the team. Adrian and Jairo spend time together and Tomas suspects there is something more between them, Adrian approaches Lara to deny it.
April 15, 2024, midnight
S1E6 - Episode 6
Jairo discovers that Adrian has spent the night with Lara, feels betrayed and cannot control his emotions in training. Patterson gets angry with Belen and the team has to decide who to support: her or the coach.
April 15, 2024, midnight
S1E7 - Episode 7
The situation with Patterson becomes complicated and ends with Lara looking for a future outside of Apolo and asking Tomas to represent her. At the same time, the men's first division team needs a player for the upcoming cup game.
April 22, 2024, midnight
S1E8 - Episode 8
The confrontation between Adrian and Jairo intensifies as they fight for a place in the first team. Meanwhile, Lara, already sidelined from the team and with no prospect of changing clubs, decides to leave the academy.
April 22, 2024, midnight
Network: TV3
Episode Runtime: 46 min.
Season Runtime: 372 min.
Released: April 1, 2024
Last Air Date: April 22, 2024, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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