Historical Sporting Video Vault

[MogwaiC86]

@Cheasty

I’ve mentioned this before but there was a Brazilian made series called “The Game Of Billions” presented by Pelé which Eurosport showed about 1991. It had a voice over by the well known English voice over person Sean Barrett. This series went into great detail and narrative about the great World Cups especially 1958, 1970 and 1986 and about football in general with a special focus on Brazil. It had utterly sublime background music full of utter joy and wonder which is burned into my mind despite not having heard it for probably 25 or 30 years. This series is nowhere to be found on YouTube or anywhere else but I think I have tapes containing parts of this series somewhere in an attic, and I am going to have to go to the trouble of learning how to transfer video tapes to digital format for the express purpose of not letting this musical soundtrack and this series be lost to history.

Somebody has put up a few minutes of this with some of the music from the soundtrack playing in the background.

The bit that starts at 4:04 is one of the best pieces of music from the soundtrack. There’s another part of this series where it’s played over the best of Maradona from Mexico '86 which is one of the greatest bits of television I’ve ever seen.

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