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A Must for Any Football (Soccer) Fan | History of Soccer: The Beautiful Game | Terence Stamp, Pele

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	• History of Soccer: The Beautiful Game Terence Stamp, Pele Shout Factory, 2003 average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

History, not highlights oriented

Excellent DVD that shows the evolution of football. Not for those who want to see lots of highlights, they are scarce and between 1900-1980 for the most part.

Very nice

This is indeed a very good piece of work, worth your money, although a bit pricey. But hey you got yourself something like 14hrs of documentary!
The only complaint I have is that this documentary was released one year before the 2002 world cup, and as such lacks the very latest developments of soccer history, especially because that world cup was the first one to be held outside Europe or the Americas. All in all a must for all of those soccer fans like myself.

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A Must for Any Football (Soccer) Fan

History of Soccer-The Beautiful Game is an excellent documentary series that covers the sport from a comprehensive and global perspective. Being an avid and knowledgeable soccer fan myself, I learned triple of what I had previously known of soccer and recommend this set to any soccer fan. The picture and the audio are fine and there many links on the DVDs that provide more information about the material covered. The narraration is great and this set also has an enormous amount of interviews. Everyone from Pele, Maradona, Zidane, and Platini are interviewed. The only problem you may have is that it may be too expensive. In my opinion, it is well worth it!

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If Ken Burns Did a Soccer Documentary, This Would Be It!

This 6 DVD box set is titled, "History of Soccer: The Beautiful Game" on the outer package, but in fact, the documentary is actually called "History of FOOTBALL," so I will be using the word "football" to describe this great game, as it should be called.

At any rate, this is a very meticulous package. It contains the first ever, motion picture of football. Film footage of the 1901 FA Cup Final between Spurs and Sheffield United. Every World Cup final goal ever scored. And these are just the EXTRAS.

The real show is the documentary, narrated wonderfully by Terence Stamp. It starts from the beginning, where a multitude of cultures and nations began to kick a ball around, and it moves through every significant event that has shaped the football world since.

There is the Soccer War, where an actual war was started as a result of a football match.

There is the Moscow Dynamo team, captured in Nazi-occupied Russia, whose exploits against Nazis in a concentration camp were the stuff of communist legend, but are revealed to have been less than legendary now that the truth can be told.

There are the giants of club football, such as Manchester United and Liverpool on the England side, Juventus, Milan, and Inter on the Italian side, Real Madrid and Barcelona on the Spanish side, and many others. And there is even a look at the darker side of the game, such as hooliganism, various victims of air crashes, and the horrendous Hillsborough tragedy.

A spotlight is shone on every football-loving nation, from England, where the game's governing body was founded, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, and many more.

There is tragedy and triumph, elation and dejection at every moment. Scores of interviews from actual participants of many matches lends a human side to every story, and if you love this game of football, you will eat this DVD series up like I did.

Buy this if you are curious. Buy this if you are a fan. But most of all, buy this because it is a quality piece of documentary work with so many extras that it will take you a long time to complete viewing the entire set. You won't regret it.

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A comprehensive view of world soccer but NOT exhaustive......

From a global perspective, this documentary series has a glaring omission; it failed to give the viewers the development of soccer in the Oceanic region. If only this documentary had mentioned about the absolute dominance of soccer in New Zealand and other Oceanic countries (in the confederation of Oceania), this DVD would truly be called a compendium of international soccer. Its failure to mention the confederation of Oceania (a common occurrence in soccer literature as well!) and the development of the game in that region shows us that FIFA and soccer commentaries and journalists have still a long way to go before being truly global in their perception of this beautiful game. In fact, one of the producers, Guy Oliver (author of the classic encyclopedic book "The Guinness Book of World Soccer") repeats this same mistake in this series. Soccer is NOT ONLY about the winners and famous soccer nations and clubs. The soul of this mesmerizing sport lies with the smaller clubs and obscure soccer nations such as Aruba, Mongolia, Vanuatu and Bhutan. Thus with a heavy heart, I am forced to give this documentary a 4-star rating and not a perfect 5 stars.

However, I really enjoyed watching this 14-hour series about world soccer. It gives the viewers a comprehensive detail about the history of this sport and the reasons for its immense popularity around the globe. It shows us every goal scored in a World Cup Final match and gives a detailed history of this sport in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, England and other top footballing European soccer nations. It even gives us the development of the game in China and India (potential World cup winning nations in the far fetched future) and shows us the future development of the game in the world.

Every famous soccer player was interviewed (the interview with Maradona was ESPECIALLY interesting and comical!) and the history of famous clubs are also being brought to light. Soccer tragedies are also being narrated and there is also a brief commentary about soccer hooliganism as well. The description of the political climate of some of the soccer nations (such as Sudan and Ghana) provides the fan an enjoyable slight deviation from the main theme.

In conclusion I would recommend this DVD to all passionate soccer fans. However, those who are interested in the minute details and facts about soccer, would not find anything new in this documentary.

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