Dismally

via Buena Vista Announcing trilogies right out of the gate is a risky gambit that’s typically restricted to the realm of effects-heavy blockbusters, so it was natural that more than a few quizzical eyebrows were raised when Goal! The Dream Begins was touted as the first of a three-film saga tracing Kuno Becker’s Santiago Muñez from the streets of Los Angeles to the top of the soccer world. Of course, it would have been received much better had the opening installment proven to be an unequivocal success, but it…