World Cup Soccer openers from around the world

[onthesea 292]

BBC (UK, 1994)

 

ITV (UK, 1994)

 

Rede Globo (Brazil, compilation of openers from 1970 to 2014)

 

Canal 13 (Argentina, 1998; throw to break and rejoin bumpers)

 

Telefe (Argentina, 1998; throw to break and rejoin bumpers)

[Samantha 2905]

Here's one from Colombia in 1990, where you needed six production companies just to get the thing going: (the music is all DeWolfe)

 

All the World Cups up through '98 were presented by multi-company groups in this way, primarily because the way Colombian TV was structured, there was no other way to stand tall on the world stage.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=GxzLpzInPMA;t=82