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Eye on the Ball

2019 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ91587807 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eye on the Ball is a 2019 Malaysian sports documentary film. It tells the true story of Malaysia's national blind football team, and their journey in the 2017 ASEAN Para Games. It was released at Astro First on 20 August 2020.

Synopsis

The documentary follows Malaysia's national blind football team, known as Harimau Buta (Blind Tigers), and details the lives of four individuals: players Asri, Kenchot and Rollen, along with their coach, Sunny Shalesh. After winning gold in the 2015 ASEAN Para Games, the team hopes to defend their championships title in the 2017 ASEAN Para Games and also qualify for the World Blind Football Championships.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Eye on the Ball” as 2019 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ball and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2017, 2020, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2019. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ball and film providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q91587807. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019, 2017, 2020 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eye on the Ball” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.