Lakeshore Records has released 
Next Goal Wins—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on November 17 with music by Oscar®, Golden Globe®, BAFTA, Broadcast Film Critics’ Choice Award and two-time GRAMMY® Awards-winner Michael Giacchino (Up, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). The dynamic yet poignant score creates a multi-dimensional backdrop to the underdog sports theme of the film. The Searchlight Pictures film directed by Taika Waititi and starring Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, David Fane, Rachel House, Beulah Koale, Uli Latukefu, Semu Filipo, Lehi Falepapalangi, with Will Arnett and Elisabeth Moss, is in Theaters November 17
Directed by Academy Award Winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok) and based on a true story, NEXT GOAL WINS follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001. With the World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) hoping he will turn the world’s worst soccer team around in this heartfelt underdog comedy.
Notes Giacchino: “As my very first sports film, composing the score for Next Goal Wins was an utter joy as I attempted to capture the essence of the Samoan soccer team’s underdog story. Taika Waititi’s ever unique vision only helped add to the films heart, wit and fun, allowing me to score moments of heartache, triumph and perseverance all culminating in a celebration of the spirit of community, the strength of individuals and the power of teamwork.”
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Track List
- Their Better Half
- Didn’t Go as Planned
- Enter the Rongen
- Answered Prayers
- Cacio e Pepe
- Player Introductions
- Rome Was Built In A Day
- Doubting Thomas
- Oh Nicky, You’re So Fine
- Coach of Blessing, Coach of Promise
- Get This Bird In The Air
- Kiss vs. Hiss
- On Any Given Tuesday
- Taking the Field
- Be Happy
- Tackling Demons
- Extra Time
- I’m Nicky Salapu
- One Team is an Island
- One Team, A Thousand Island
- Next Goal Wins
- We Are Samoa – Jerome Grey
- Musika Malie – LEAO
- Su’ga Ea! – Tha Feelstyle
ABOUT MICHAEL GIACCHINO
Composer and Director MICHAEL GIACCHINO has film score credits that feature some of the most popular and acclaimed projects in recent history, including The Incredibles, Coco, Jojo Rabbit, Ratatouille, Star Trek, Jurassic World, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Spider- Man: No Way Home, War for the Planet of the Apes and The Batman. Giacchino’s 2009 score for the Pixar hit Up earned him an Oscar®, a GoldenGlobe®, the BAFTA, the Broadcast Film Critics’ Choice Award and two GRAMMY® Awards. After almost twenty years of film scoring, Giacchino directed the very first Marvel special presentation, Werewolf By Night in 2022.
Giacchino studied filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. After college, he landed a marketing job at Disney and began studies in music composition, first at Juilliard, and then at UCLA. He moved from marketing to producing in the newly formed Disney Interactive Division where he had the opportunity to write music for video games.
After moving to DreamWorks Interactive, he was asked to score the temp track for the video game adaptation of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Subsequently, Steven Spielberg hired him as the composer and it became the first PlayStation game to have a live orchestral score, recorded with members of the Seattle Symphony. Giacchino went on to score numerous video games including Spielberg’s Medal of Honor series.
Giacchino’s work in video games sparked the interest of J.J. Abrams, and thus began their long-standing relationship that would lead to scores for the hit television series! Alias and Lost, and the feature films Mission Impossible III, the three Star Trek films and Super 8.
Additional projects include collaborations with Disney Imagineering on music for Space Mountain, Star Tours (with John Williams), the Ratatouille ride in Disneyland Paris, and the Incredicoaster on Pixar Pier at California Adventure. His music can be heard in concert halls internationally with all three Star Trek films, Ratatouille, Jurassic World, Up and Coco being performed live-to-picture with a full orchestra.
In June 2018, Giacchino premiered his first work for symphony orchestra, Voyage, Commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the piece celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of NASA. In July 2019, a third movement, Advent, was added for the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing.In 2019, Giacchino’s first LP of original music, Travelogue Vol 1, featuring his Nouvelle Modernica orchestra, described as a story in song, was released on Mondo Records. The holiday song Christmas Number One, written with Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson was recorded and performed by UK based band Itchy Teeth, and released as a specialty single with Death Waltz Records.
Werewolf By Night marked Giacchino’s feature directing debut after having helmed the Star Trek short Ephraim and Dot, and his own comedy short, Monster Challenge. This fall’s projects include the scores for Taika Waititi’s sports comedy “Next Goal Wins” and J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow.
Giacchino sits on the advisory board of Education Through Music Los Angeles.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Drive, Stranger Things, The Old Guard, Cyberpunk 2077, When They See Us, The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, Les Miserables, Mandy, Narcos, Logan, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Red Dead Redemption 2, Legion, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk and The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
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