Brotherhood of Lions

The documentary Brotherhood of Lions is a story about the legendary football club Lions Lions were created in 1978 under the leadership of Roman Ubakivi who wanted to start training Estonian boys when the general sports circles did not think the worlds most popular game was suitable for Estonians The tremendous training volumes successful trips to competitions in the Soviet Russia tales of happenings and work ethics that are absurd from todays point of view all paint a colourful warm and inspiring story of young men their charismatic coach and everybody else who took part in their journey Promoted by the media those young boys became national heroes at the end of the 1980s and in the winds of freedom people started to see them as the Estonian football team Unknowingly the Lions were thus like the ambassadors of freedom and even more so the foundations of football in the newly independent Estonia