Soccermania
| Sport Goofy in Soccermania | |
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VHS Cover Art
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| Directed by |
Matthew O'Callaghan Darrell Van Citters (uncredited) |
| Story by |
Tad Stones Michael Giaimo Joe Ranft |
| Starring |
Tony Pope Will Ryan Russi Taylor Jack Angel Phil Proctor Chick Hearn |
| Music by | John Debney |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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Release date
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May 27, 1987 |
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Running time
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20 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Sport Goofy in Soccermania is an animated television special produced by The Walt Disney Company. It originally aired May 27, 1987 on NBC. During its television debut it was preceded by a mockumentary showing past Goofy cartoons of him always getting everything wrong, and leading into the cartoon special where the audience is finally shown a competent, athletic Goofy who is the hero.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie request Scrooge McDuck donate $1.49 to buy a championship trophy for their new soccer team. Scrooge gives an old trophy of his he thinks is worthless, but the boys pass the curator of the Duckburg Museum, who sees it is a rare artifact worth a million dollars. To win back the trophy, Scrooge is now made to sponsor his nephews, and he ends up enlisting the aid of a surprisingly athletic and agile Goofy, who ends becoming the team's coach when the nephews' teammates are shown as ragtag misfits, but the "McDuck Greenbacks" come together under "Sport Goofy"'s patient coaching and sharpen their soccer skills.
Unfortunately, the Beagle Boys know of the trophy's value, and sought to enter the soccer tournament as well, but since they are out of shape and do not know anything about soccer, they decide Goofy is a problem and kidnap him. The team is disheartened by the loss of their team captain, but resolve to go on without him. Despite the excellent playing by the team members, the Beagle Boys engage in outright cheating and a nearsighted referee keeps declaring the Beagles' goals legit, ending the first half with a score of 10-0. Goofy quietly escapes the Beagles' hideout and gets to the field for the second half, which encourages the Greenbacks into incredible playing that not even the Beagles' cheating can counter, causing a comeback of 10-10.
When the enraged Beagles resort to outright physically assaulting Goofy, Scrooge finally makes the referee wear his glasses, causing the referee to cry foul and set up a penalty shot. The Beagles' captain has secretly placed a bomb in the ball, and orders a Beagle to push the red button on the detonator when Goofy is ready to take his shot. Unfortunately, that Beagle is so uneducated he keeps pushing the green button, causing Sport Goofy to easily make the penalty goal past an overconfident goalie, thus the Greenbacks win 11-10. All of Duckburg rejoices except for the Beagles, whose angry captain pushes the red button causing the ball to explode and send all the Beagle Boys into a waiting police van. Now that Scrooge has his trophy back, he donates it to the Duckburg Museum, and joins the McDuck Greenbacks in their championship photo.
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