BBC World Cup 2006 Titles

BBC England promo created for the BBCs live World Cup 2006 coverage

Our contribution to BBC Sports coverage was focused around daily motion graphics content creation. Delivering shots for both pre-match build ups and post-match highlights, our team worked shifts throughout the day & evening ensuring all the programs received the same high-quality content BBC Sport have come to expect from us. Additionally we were tasked with quite a complicated VFX shot from the BBC Sport World Cup title sequence. This was to substitute a shot of Steven Gerrard with one of Wayne Rooney, in time for Rooneys first World Cup appearance that year. The original post-production had been carried out by Rushes on Flame, we were then asked to match the same FX & grade in the field! Needless to say the resulting shot is almost indistinguishable from the one it replaced.

[@jackdoe1883]

So many happy memories from 2006! One of the best world cups, certainly of the last 20 years.

[@MrCrystalm8]

Theres just something so magical about this intro

[@JesseJaymarHd]

This brings back memories , I was in year 5 at school can remember this, my first ever football tournament memory

[@pittman1996]

Same! I remember running home from school to see the opening game.

[@DuderinoDeux]

The best of the last 3 World Cup tournaments.

[@EggOnLegs]

One of the greatest intros ever.

[@lukedaley17]

Brings back good memories. The first World Cup I’ve watched.

[@mikemate536]

Nostalgic memories!

[@MrWolfpk]

Best world cup intro ever!!! AWESOME

[@natashafallon3438]

RIP football, brilliant memories, commentary, players & off course zidane's excellent use of his head!!!🙂💜

[@RMetsy]

I was in sixth form when this was on

[@bigbadryster]

Wags and Rooney fucking it up for us. All I remember

[@thepurpleazumaril8581]

bigbadryster It wasn't his fault

[@ghamandlupin]

Rooney was our player of the tournament. Better than any Liverpool players in the squad, if there were any.

[@owentenoriomusicofficial]

Nací el 6 de julio de 2006 un par de días antes de la final, me hubiera encantado ver este mundial

[@tomboz777]

Probably my favourite, though it would've been better if it was a touch longer.

[@elsalvadorplaya]

1990 best intro

[@martinranalli8572]

Go England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆⚽

[@estario]

Wow cr7 already in a wc intro all the way back in 2006. He still wasn't even the main man for portugal yet.

[@BOABModels]

A lot of the players in this intro were Premier League stars as well as international (Henry, Robben, Ronaldo, Rooney, Ballack was just about to join Chelsea too) so I think that's why the BBC chose him

[@stuqua]

Is there a fuller version of this piece of music?

[@Gg-zd8xz]

lol yes. It's the hym "thine be the glory"

[@martinranalli8572]

Forza Italia 🇮🇹🏆⚽

[@Scallion_D]

The last great tournament intro from either BBC or ITV?
I think it is.

[@MrBooBeeDoo]

Close. I think they came back with the fabulous Brazil 2014 intro. But then went shit again.
So I'd say 2014 is their last great intro

[@zuheirmekkielsayedali4623]

It’s like Little Britain

[@MrCrystalm8]

What, no zidane in the titles??

[@konradbanas4389]

song?

[@tomboz777]

Konrad Banaś czcams.com/video/8p1BedwyFKY/video.html

[@chewinggum2001]

Intro music should definitely have been the Dambusters

[@ASuwan22]

Excellent world cup but one of the poorest intros from bbc

[@marvy3022]

It isn't, lol.

[@jdnm797]

France 98, Japan/Korea 2002, USA 94 and possibly Italia 90 (just for the epic music) were better intros than this. This is one of the BBC's weaker World Cup intros.

[@cwm6203]

I'm sorry but (except for Italia 90) they are not better than this intro

[@Dizzzi13]

never

[@Templort]

@ivangrozny27 2010 was focking shit. :L

[@b800ful]

@TimmyCorona1991 Get over it.

[@shauncraigparkinson8165]

ITV was better