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Football Worlds: The Game of Their Lives

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Last broadcast on Wed, 25 Feb 2009, 00:35 on BBC Four.

Synopsis

Documentary charting North Korea's shock success in the 1966 World Cup, telling the story of the team's seven surviving members who remain national heroes and household names to this day. Not only were they the first Asian team to reach the quarter-finals of the competition, but in so doing they sent home championship favourites Italy.

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  1. Wed 25 Feb 2009
    00:35
    BBC Four

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80 minutes

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