Mental Floss had a list of Bend it Like Beckham facts, and included this:
She's so talented. She's better than Michael Owen!
ALSO even a blog dedicated to mistakes in archery had very little to say about her form.
By the end of training, said Clifford, Knightley "could do things some Premier League players can't do. I taught her moves I've worked on with Michael Owen, and he found some of them harder to master than she did." Clifford also said, "If I'd trained her from the age of 10 or 11, without a shadow of a doubt Keira could have been a pro."
Knightly told Interview magazine she came to the movie with some soccer experience. "I was captain of the girls team in primary school," she said, "but we never actually scored a goal. We only kicked people."
She's so talented. She's better than Michael Owen!
ALSO even a blog dedicated to mistakes in archery had very little to say about her form.
Keira Knightley has learned archery well from her trainer. She really knows how to shoot. This is very uncommon in movies, where actors don't pay much attention to their archery teachers, or then they don't have those at all. Knightley's form is just perfect!