Soccer Made in Germany (1976)

Country

United States

How it feels

This series showed weekly highlights of West German soccer matches and select international games. It was hosted by different announcers over its twelve year run on PBS and was one of the first national soccer shows in the United States.

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What happens

Soccer Made in Germany was a PBS show created and executive produced by Joerg Klebe that ran from 1976 until 1988. The program, distributed to 256 PBS member stations by the German Educational Television Network (known today as Deutsche Welle) was initially sponsored by KQED Channel 9, San Francisco. The Emmy-nominated weekly series featured hour-long edited highlights of games involving West German association football teams and select international and European Cup games from UEFA. The show was hosted by Toby Charles from 1976 to 1983 and by Alan Fountain from 1983 to 1988. It was one of the first national TV programs dedicated exclusively to the sport of soccer in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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