Soccer Fever(サッカーフィーバー) is a 1994 sports anime produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha(TMS Entertainment), RAI, Seoul Movie, and TMS-Kyokuchi. It was broadcast by

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and

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. This anime is part of '' Eisei Anime Gekijō'' (衛星アニメ劇場). "Eisei Anime Gekijo" is an anthology program which broadcasts both new ongoing and older completed programs. It was started in 1990 and is broadcast by NHK-BS2.

Plot

Soccer Fever revolves around a theatrical reiteration of all the stories that happened in the previous

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s. It covers all the world cups from the 1930 edition which was held in

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till the then most recent one in

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which was held in

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. It follows the stories revolving around the former world cup winners and the circumstances leading to their wins. The main protagonist of the story is an ex-reporter by the name of Brian Thompson. He leads the audience into the great matches played by the various former world cup winners. In the middle we are also shown glimpses from Brian's youth. The show covers all the great players who lead their respective countries to world Cup glory.We also see the game brilliantly reborn through spectacular players like Franz Beckenbauer, Müller Gard, Eusebio and the greatest of them all,

Diego Armando Maradona Diego Armando Maradona (; 30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FI ...

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* 1994 anime television series debuts Italian children's animated television series Association football in anime and manga NHK original programming TMS Entertainment {{Anime-television-series-stub