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Over view – Former European Footballer of the Year and German Footballer of the Year in 1990, Lothar Matthaus has played in no less than five World Cup Tournaments - 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998 - more than any other field player. Matthaus - born on 21 March 1961 in Erlangen, Germany - also holds the record for the most World Cup games played - 25 in total. In addition to these accolades Matthaus captained Germany to victory in the 1990 World Cup. He started his professional soccer career in 1979, and within a year had won the 1980 European Football Championship. He subsequently played in Euro 84, Euro 88, and Euro 2000. Matthaus is also a member of the 100 greatest living football players chosen by Pele. Since retiring as a player Matthaus has worked as the head coach at Rapid Vienna and Partizan Belgrade, and he is currently in charge of the Hungarian National Team. This is the incredible story of one of Germany's most successful and electrifying soccer players ever...
Legendary italian striker Giuseppe Signori has made a significant contribution to his country's soccer success during a career that has seen him playing for Bologna fc, Lazio, and Italy. This show looks back over his outstanding career in football.
Gabriel Omar Batistuta, born on 1 February 1969, is the all-time highest scorer for Argentina's national team, although he has played most of his club football at Fiorentina in Italy. It was after watching the 1978 World Cup on television that nine-year-old Batistuta decided that he was going to be a top professional soccer player. In 1989 he joined one of Argentina's biggest clubs River Plate, scoring 17 goals. In 1991 Batistuta was selected to play for Argentina in the Copa America held in Chile, and he finished the tournament as top scorer with six goals. Batistuta played his second Copa America - held in Ecuador - in 1993 and was also in his country's 1994 World Cup team. Following his move to Fiorentina, Batistuta became the top scorer of the 1994-1995 season with 26 goals, and in the 1998 World Cup finals he scored no less than five goals. After moving to AS Roma (in a deal worth a reputed $35 million), and then to Internazionale, Batistuta finished his professional career playing in Qatar for Al-Arabi. After a series of injuries he announced his full-time retirement in March 2005. This documentary is a riveting overview of Gabriel Batistuta's splendid career...
Known to his friends and colleagues as "Sheva", Milan soccer star Andriy Shevchenko was born in Ukraine in 1976 and was nine years old when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred, just miles from where he lived with his family. Moving to the Black Sea coast with his parents, Sheva began to develop a strong interest in soccer. At the age of 14 he played for the "Dynamo Kyiv Under-14 Team" in the "Ian Rush Cup" in Wales, and came out with the top score, being presented with a pair of rush's boots. While with Dynamo Kyiv, Sheva won five league titles and two national cups between 1994 and 1999. Other accolades include one Champions League, one European Super Cup, one Italian Cup, and one Italian League Super Cup. Andriy Shevchenko was named the European Footballer Of The Year in 2004, and has represented Ukraine in 63 matches and scored 28 international goals. This is the story of a remarkable career...
Francesco Totti, born in Rome in September 1976, showed an enormous talent for soccer from being a small boy, when he preferred watching football matches to cartoons on television. He joined the junior team for AS Roma at the age of 16 and, since then, has never looked back. Totti scored in Italy's 4-1 defeat by Spain in the final of the 1995 European Under-18 Championship, and he opened the scoring in a 1-1 draw against the Spanish in the final of the Under-21 Competition in 1996. Francesco Totti was named Italy's Player of the Year in 2000 and again in 2003. In 2000/2001 he helped AS Roma win their first league title since 1983, scoring 13 goals for the team. Married to Ilary Blasi, a former model turned television host, Totti runs his own football school called Number Ten, and has his own motorbike team, Totti Top Sport. This is Totti's fascinating story...
Born Rui Manuel Cesar Costa in March 1972 in Lisbon, Portuguese soccer star Rui Costa has built up an extraordinary reputation on the field, as a midfielder for the Italian Club AC Milan and also for the Portuguese National Team. In 2004 he was named by soccer legend Pele in the list of the 100 greatest living football players. Rui Costa was a member of the Portuguese under-20 National team that won the 1989 and 1991 World Youth Championships, and other accolades that have come his way since then include the cup of Portugal in 1993, Coppa Italia (1996 and 2003), the Portuguese League (1994), Italy's Supercup (1996) and The Champions League (2003). He left the Portuguese National Team in 2004 but remains one of AC Milan's star players. This is his fascinating story...
One of italy's top soccer stars, Filippo Inzaghi represented his country at both the 1998 and 2002 world cup tournaments, and is known to his legion of fans as Superpippo, the italian name for the Disney character Super Goof. Born in piacenza, italy, in august 1973, Inzaghi is the brother of Simone Inzaghi who is also a professional soccer player. Inzaghi has scored 21 goals in 48 appearanes for his country. He has played for several clubs in his home country, including verona. , piacenza and atalanta. Inzaghi scored no less than 24 goals, leading the italian serie A, while playing for the latter club. He later moved on to juventus and AC Milan, winning the league championship with both star teams. Filippo Inzaghi's successful career is highlighted in this remarkable documentary...
Documentary about Alessandro Del Piero.
Born in Bologna in July 1973, Vieri played for several clubs in his youth, before breaking through into the big time in Torino, scoring eight goals during Juventus' 1997/1998 campaign. Vieri then moved on to Spain where he scored 24 goals in 24 matches for Atletico De Madrid. This charismatic soccer player netted five goals for Italy in the 1998 World Cup campaign, and also scored four out of the five goals in the 2002 World Cup, Christian Vieri's remarkable career in soccer is told here ...
Born in Rio De Janeiro in September 1976, Luis Nazario De Lima Ronaldo is known to millions of soccer fans worldwide as simply Ronaldo. This legendary player - also known as O Fenomeno (The Phenomenon) - who plays as a forward for Brazil and Real Madrid, is recognised as one of the best strikers of the modern era. Ronaldo has won the Player Of The Year award three times and is said to be the second best known person in the world after George W. Bush, Ronaldo was born in a poor area of Rio. By the age of 16 he had scored 59 goals in 57 matches for Brazil's under-17 squad. Ronaldo's European career started when he joined PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands for the 1994-1995 season. After a period of ill health Ronaldo made a remarkable comeback in the 2002 World Cup, scoring two goals against Germany, and subsequently becoming the top scorer of the tournament and helping Brazil win their fifth World Cup title. This is Ronaldo's incredible story...
Italian football striker and manager Gianluca Vialli - born in Cremona, Italy, in July 1964 - started his soccer career in 1980 when he played for his local club Cremonese, later moving on to Sampdoria in Genoa, and then joining Juventus. He was included in the Italy squad for the 1986 Mexico World Cup finals. In 1997 Vialli signed with London's Chelsea team and during his three years there he scored 40 goals in 83 appearances. Vialli became player-manager for the team after Ruud Gullit was fired in 1998, and was one of the club's most successful managers ever, winning the Cup Winners' Cup in 1998, and the FA Cup in 2000. His team also finished third in the Premiership in 1999 - Chelsea's highest league finish for almost 30 years. Today Gianluca Vialli works as a TV football commentator for Sky Italia. This is his remarkable and enduring story...
This show Documents The Life & Times Of Superstar Italian Player & Manager Roberto Mancini. As We Journey Into His Hometown, We Interview The People Who Were Influential In His Life And We See Great Footage Of This Football Hero
Former French football player Michel Platini - born June 21 1955 - enjoyed a long and celebrated career, which included captaining the French National Team to European Championship honours in 1984, and becoming the top scorer of the tournament with nine goals. Platini was voted European Footballer of the Year three times in succession in 1983, 1984 and 1985 - an unprecedented achievement. He was also voted World Soccer Player of the Year in 1984 and 1985. Platini started his soccer career at Nancy-Lorraine and subsequently Saint-Etienne, winning the 1981 league games as a midfielder, during his time with Juventus Platini helped the club win two league titles, the Italian Cup, the European Cup, and the Cup Winners Cup, this is his remarkable story...
Born in Marseille, France, in 1972, Zinedine Yazid Zidane - nicknamed Zizou - is widely regarded as being one of the greatest football players in the world today. One of the genuine soccer icons of his generation, Zidane was a member of the French football team in the 1998 World Cup, which France won, scoring two headed goals in the final against Brazil. Three years later Zidane transferred from Italian team Juventus to Spanish club Real Madrid, at a cost of £47 million, making him the most expensive player in soccer history. Zidane has been nominated world player of the year on three separate occasions - 1998, 2000 and 2003, - and in 2004 he was voted the best European player for the past 50 years in the golden jubilee poll. This is the story of one of the greatest players in the long history of soccer...
The legendary Ruud Gullit - born in Amsterdam in 1962 - was a dutch star football player of the eighties and nineties, as well being named "European Footballer of the Year" in 1987, and "World Football Player of the Year" in both 1987 and 1989. Born Ruud Dil, this remarkable player started his career with Haarlem before eventually being signed by Italy's Silvio Berlusconi for 6 million pounds. Gullit played with the AC Milan Team of the late eighties, helping the team capture three serie A titles and two European Cups (in 1989 and 1990). Gullit was also in the team that led the Netherlands to the Euro 1988 title. In July 1995 he signed for Chelsea FC, eventually becoming player-manager guiding the club to an FA Cup Win in 1997 - the first overseas manager to win that trophy. Gullit was subsequently appointed manager of Newcastle United FC in 1998, leading that team to an FA Cup final appearance in 1998. Here is the story of Ruud Gullit's eventful life and career...
During an impressive soccer career that started in 1982 when he was just 15 years old, Italian star player Roberto Baggio has collected a well-deserved array of awards and honours including European Cup Winner 1992/93, World Footballer Of The Year 1993, European Footballer Of The Year 1993, Italian Serie A Champion 1994/95 and 1995/96, and Coppa Italia Winner 1994/95. In 2001 Baggio was also voted most loved player in an internet poll. Born in Vicenza, Italy, Baggio started playing football seriously at the age of nine years. After signing to his local football team, and picking up plaudits along the way, he moved to Fiorentina, making many appearances in the European Cup and Italian Cup matches. Baggio later signed to Juventus FC for a record-breaking $17 million, and also took part in the Italian World Cup in Italy in 1990, and in the 1994 World Cup. In 1995 Baggio moved to AC Milan, and was then signed to Bologna FC in 1997. In the 1998/99 season he was bought by Inter Milan, and then in 2000 Baggio signed with Brescia. This is Roberto Baggio's fascinating story...
Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento on 23 October 1940, but better known worldwide as simply Pele, this legendary Brazilian football player is considered by most soccer pundits and fans to be the finest soccer player of all time. During his length career Pele scored well over a thousand goals and also won three World Cups. Pele grew up in a poverty stricken area of Sao Paulo - he couldn't afford a football so he kicked around socks stuffed full of newspaper. On his sixth birthday he was given his first leather ball... and never looked back. Aged 11, Pele was "discovered" by brazilian legend Waldemar de Brito. Just six years later Pele became the youngest ever World Cup winner, scored two goals in the Swedish final, which saw Brazil defeat Sweden 5-2. He played in three more Brazilian World Cup teams in 1962, 1966 and 1970, two of which Brazil won. This is the true story of one of soccer history's genuine all-time greats...
This documentary features interviews with residents from Maradona's hometown and the people who were influential in his life. Not only that, but Diego himself offers his own thoughts on his achievements. With a smattering of top quality footage of Maradona in action for 'Argentina', this is ideal viewing for fans of the player and the game. Soon to be hanging up his boots, this is a perfect opportunity to see the most important player of his generation strut his stuff on the pitch.
A documentary on the life and career of AC Miland & Italy legend Paolo Maldini.
