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

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and

Rai Uno Rai 1 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's flagship television channel and is known for broadcasting mainstream and general ...

. 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

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

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

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, Müller Gard, Eusebio and the greatest of them all, Diego Armando Maradona.

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* 1994 anime television series debuts Television series set in 1930 Television series set in 1994 Italian children's animated television series Association football in anime and manga NHK original programming TMS Entertainment RAI original programming FIFA World Cup in fiction Television series about journalism {{Anime-television-series-stub