Product Description

Although FIFA was formed in 1904, it was not until 1930 that the first World Cup tournament was played. Since then the competition has become the greatest sporting spectacle in the world. Here is the history of the tournament, together with highlights from all the greatest games. ADDED FEATURES: Includes all results for the World Cup Finals tournaments 1930-2002.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15014 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-06-21
• Rating: Exempt
• Formats: Black & White, Colour, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 59 minutes

Synopsis
The history of the tournament that has been held since 1930. Contains highlights of some of the more memorable goals and games.

Customer Reviews

Worst DVD Ever
It's hard to impart how bad this DVD is. For a start, it looks like it was made by some Middle School film student using 80s video game music and graphics. Considering it's a World Cup DVD, it's ridiculous that the drab, uninspiring narrative is often accompanied by footage of the English Premiership. There is no coverage of the 98 World Cup, just a brief narration of what happened, and very little of the 94 World Cup. In fact they only show the final and spend ages yapping on about the cities and the mascots and other miscellaneous drivel. The best example of all as to why this is the worst DVD in history is that famous England v Argentina match from the 86 World Cup. Maradona's goal (the one where he dribbles from the halfway line) receives about two seconds of coverage, while Lineker's headed goal gets three replays. Shocking. Do not get this DVD.

Poor quality and laughable in places
This 1 hr DVD goes through all the world cups until abruptly stopping before the 2002 one (Why? It was made in 2004!) however some world cups have only a few seconds footage of the final, and some, like USA '94 have disproportionately large amounts of time and detail on peripheral things like US stadiums, mascots and cities, plus Pele's career in the US football league.

The introduction screen to each new world cup features a cheap-looking screen with what looks like an Milan player, with laughable bad-arcade-game music. To make things worse, in between shots of world cup footage there are at least 2 random sequences of Dennis Bergkamp scoring and celebrating for Arsenal!

For the more recent world cups, there are highlights of the main games with memorable upsets/players highlighted. Overall, despite the low quality you can learn something from this DVD and if you really love football it's still - but only just - worth watching.

Shockingly Terrible
It's actually something of a travesty that this DVD is allowed to be sold. Everything about it is appalling. The two most recent World Cups are covered purely with voiceover, while occasional clips of entirely unrelated Premier League goals punctuate the boredom. It's a joke - and i'd be laughing if I hadn't parted with £8 for the pleasure. Amazon shouldn't even sell this piece of garbage.