In the latest brilliant brainchild from the House of Ideas, Marvel is hoping to explain soccer to Americans with the only thing less popular in America than soccer: comic books.
Teaming up with sister-company ESPN, Marvel has produced a digital comic explaining the 2018 World Cup (that's a soccer event) in 13 chapters, though each chapter consists[...]
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The new series include: Sandra, a virtual assistant-themed series starring Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live, Bridesmaids) and Alia Shawkat (Search Party, Arrested Development); simulated Mars mission docu-series The Habitat; and We Came To Win, a series looking back at the history of the FIFA World Cup The Brooklyn-based company is the home to hit podcasts[...]
With the World Cup coming this year, people are for sure going to want the Playmobil World Cup pitch with players sets Each player is sporting a kit representing a country that will be participating in the event Just like the NHL sets, the figures feature leg-kicking action with the flick of a finger This[...]
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We had a brief but fun chat about the history and future of East of West, working with Dragotta, what he's been reading, and -most importantly- the World Cup.
David Dissanayake: So, firstly and most importantly, who is going to win the World Cup?
Jonathan Hickman: Me, I think Argentina is going to win[...]
Because, yes, there's a World Cup going on And Peter Serafinowicz, along with his fellow voiceover artist Lewis Macleod (who is also pretty brilliant) are improvising football commentary and broadcasting it along with the match So you can turn off the BBC commentator and stream in Peter instead Oh and getting guest commentator, his familiar character Brian[...]
It was recorded in 2010 to coincide with the World Cup in South Africa It failed to chart.
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It's one of a number of vignettes that show the Brazilian football team in a match, that cuts away to show different sorts of football games, with children, with cartoon giants, with black and white mobsters, featuring Brazilian players in different roles and forms, that then seem to replace them in the real football match.
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