Dora's Super Soccer Showdown

Dora's Super Soccer Showdown!
Airdate	Thursday, June 5, 2014
Season	8
Episode	14
Written by	Rosemary Contreras Storyboard by Kathy Carr Bismarck “Butch” Datuin Enrico Vilbar Santana Jose Silverio
Directed by	George Chialtas Allan Jacobsen Henry-Lenardin Madden
Previous	Dora's Museum Sleepover Adventure
Next	Dora and the Very Sleepy Bear US: Dora Saves Fairytale Land

Dora's Super Soccer Showdown! is the 14^th episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 8.

Characters present

• Dora
• Boots
• Backpack
• Benny
• Isa
• Tico
• Map
• Swiper
• Fiesta Trio
• Paola (debut)

Summary

Dora travels to Brazil to play in the Big Cup Soccer Tournament against a team of monsters.

Recap

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Teams in this episode

• Samba Trees
• Dinosaurs
• Monsters

Trivia

• This is Isa’s final appearance in Dora the Explorer, she will return again in Dora and Friends: Into the City! episodes Return to the Rainforest and Dora's Rainforest Reunion.
• A remix of Swiper's theme can be heard in this episode before and when Dora and the gang chant "Swiper, no swiping!".
• The quote "We're not scared!" is a reference to the Season 1 episode Berry Hunt.
• This is the last episode to use a special opening sequence with a different opening theme.
• This episode is very similar to The Golden Explorers and Dora Saves the Game.
• The Nickelodeon Logo music becomes low toned at the end of this episode.
• Paola teaches the viewer at home some Portuguese.
• This is the 172^nd episode of the show.
• This is the last episode to premiere in 2014.
• This is the second most watched cartoon episode about the 2014 FIFA World Cup after "The Simpsons" episode "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee".
• Dora and Boots don't sing the Travel Song in this episode, they instead sing a song about getting to the soccer game and winning it, they also sing that they're all together.
• This episode premiered exactly 13 years after Swing Into Action! and Wish on a Star were released on VHS, 5 years after Dora Saves the Three Little Pigs premiered and 1 year after Kittens in Mittens premiered.
• Although the following episodes after this one were produced in 2014, this is the last episode to premiere after the series went on a 5-year and two-day hiatus.

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