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

Song

Go, Go, Go! Vai, Vai, Vai!

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!".
• 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, Dora Saves the Game, and slightly We're a Team! (although the third aforementioned episode is about racing and not soccer).
• The Nickelodeon Logo music becomes low toned at the end of this episode.
• Paola teaches the viewer at home some Portuguese.
  • This is another episode where the viewers get to learn a new language besides Spanish, just like in Dora's World Adventure!. In the aforementioned episode, the viewer learns how to say Hello in French, Swahili, Russian, and Mandarine Chinese.
• 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 "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee", an episode from popular teen-adult animated series The Simpsons, which is known for getting some World Cup predictions right.
• 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.
• Just like in Super Spies, Dora's Easter Adventure, and Dora's Ice-Skating Spectacular, Map only says "I'm the Map!" once instead of singing the entire song. The Fiesta Trio doesn't join in either.
• This episode premiered exactly 13 years after Swing Into Action! and Wish on a Star were released on VHS, 8 years after Baby Jaguar's Roar premiered (in current airings), 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.
• This is the last episode to use the 2009 Nickelodeon Productions logo, further episodes beginning with Dora Saves Fairytale Land would start using the new 2017 Nickelodeon Productions logo.

References

The quote "We're not scared!" is a reference to the Season 1 episode Berry Hunt.

Gallery

Are the Samba Trees on the red or yellow path?

Are the Dinosaurs on the blue or pink path?

To get to the monsters, do we take the path that's purple or orange?