''Sport Goofy in Soccermania'' is an animated television special produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for

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. It originally aired May 27, 1987, on

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. During its television debut it was preceded by a

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showing past Goofy cartoons of him always getting everything wrong, and leading into the cartoon special where the audience is finally shown a competent, athletic Goofy who is the hero.

Plot

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request

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$1.49 to buy a championship trophy for their new soccer team, which Scrooge gasps is very expensive. Scrooge gives an old trophy of his he thinks is worthless, but the boys pass the

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of the Duckburg Museum, who appraises it as an artifact worth a million dollars. To win back the trophy, Scrooge is now made to sponsor his nephews. They buy a soccer ball from a sporting goods store owned by a surprisingly athletic and agile

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, who ends becoming the team's coach when the nephews' teammates are shown as ragtag misfits, but the "McDuck Greenbacks" come together under "Sport Goofy"'s patient coaching and sharpen their soccer skills. Since the trophy's value makes front page news, the

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are aware it, and seek to enter the soccer tournament as well, but since they are out of shape and do not know anything about soccer, they resort to

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. A series of sports news montages are shown how the soccer tournament has been progressing. When the Beagles see the Greenbacks won the semifinals, they think Goofy is a problem and

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him. The team is disheartened by the loss of their team captain, but resolve to go on without him. Despite the excellent playing by the team members, the Beagle Boys engage in their cheating and a nearsighted referee keeps declaring the Beagles' goals legit, ending the first half with a score of 10–0. Goofy quietly escapes the Beagles' hideout and gets to the field for the second half, which encourages the Greenbacks into incredible playing that not even the Beagles' cheating can counter, causing a comeback of 10–10. When the enraged Beagles resort to outright physically assaulting Goofy, Scrooge finally makes the referee wear his glasses, causing the referee to cry foul and set up a penalty shot. The field is cleared save for Goofy and the Beagles' goalie, however Goofy is still dizzy from the beating he is trying to regain his balance. The Beagles' captain secretly places a bomb in the ball, and orders a Beagle to push the red button on the detonator when Goofy is ready to take his shot. Unfortunately, the Beagle is so uneducated he keeps pushing the green button, causing Sport Goofy to easily make the penalty goal past an overconfident goalie, thus the Greenbacks win 11–10. All of Duckburg rejoices except for the Beagles, whose angry captain pushes the red button causing the ball to explode and send all the Beagle Boys into a waiting police van. Now that Scrooge has his trophy back, he donates it to the Duckburg Museum (after making sure it's tax-deductible), and joins the McDuck Greenbacks in their championship photo.

Voice actors

Tony Pope Anthony J. Pope (March 22, 1947 – February 11, 2004), also known as "Anthony Mozdy", was an American voice actor. He is best remembered for voicing Goofy for eleven years. He also worked on the first two DVDs of LeapFrog, voicing Mr. Websley ...

- Sport Goofy * Will Ryan - Scrooge McDuck, Jeeves, Beagle Boy #2, and Gyro Gearloose *

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- Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Grandma Duck, and TV Chef *

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- Beagle Boy #1 *

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- Beagle Boy #3, and Museum Curator *

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- The Announcer

Production

The short marks the debut of

as the voice of Huey, Dewey, and Louie (taking the role from Clarence Nash) and Grandma Duck (taking the role from June Foray). Joe Ranft and Tad Stones wrote the story. Ranft went on to work for

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(and eventually returned to Disney when Pixar was contracted to do films for them), while Stones went on to work at Walt Disney Television Animation, which was concurrently in production on ''

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'', another pairing of Uncle Scrooge and his nephews. ''Sport Goofy in Soccermania'' is one of the few Disney cartoons where Uncle Scrooge was not voiced by his classic voice actor of

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, but instead was voiced by Will Ryan. ''Sport Goofy in Soccermania'' was Darrell Van Citters' last production with Disney. He worked for Warner Bros. Animation for a couple years, before forming his own animation company,

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References

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