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Sport Videos / DVDs
The Ultimate Goal (2002-2008)
Spectacular football action with world class players
discussing their dreams, disappointments and motivation as they search for
their own ultimate goal. Narrated by John Motson.
The Ultimate Goal DVD / video combined spectacular football
action with world class players talking about their careers, their dreams and
disappointments, about motivation and about their own ultimate goal.
For the players featured on this DVD / video, a career in
football has been a dream come true, but the ultimate goal for them has been
more than just a game. It is something that will continue to give them purpose
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Sports Booklets
In recent years Deo Gloria has embarked on many projects in
partnership with other Christian agencies. Some of the most significant feature
sporting events.
KICK OFF 2006 - Football World Cup, Germany
Competition Starts on 9th June 2006 - Finishes on 9th July
2006
This booklet has been produced as part of the continuing and very successful
series of football pocket guides. It is a guide to the FIFA World Cup™
2006.
It contains:
- The origins and history of the FIFA World Cup™
- The path to qualifying for all finalists.
- Full fixtures with kick off times, locations and space to
record scores.
- Details of all of the venues in Germany
- Read some astounding facts about the World Cup and amaze
your friends
Whether you love football or hate it, the World Cup will be
difficult to ignore, whatever your view it still gives us all the opportunity
to reach out to football fans with a Christian message.
Deo Gloria has once again in partnership with Christians in
Sport, International Bible Society, Christian Enquiry Agency and Verite.
The take up so far has been outstanding, after printing
85,000 we are now sold out.
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The Road to Glory – Pocket guide to Barclaycard
Premiership 2003-04
 This booklet was based on the
previous, well tested, idea of producing a guide with fixtures, history etc,
along with some testimonies of Christian players and a short gospel outline.
The idea of the booklet was have something that was high quality and acceptable
to the football fan and not too pushy – a kind of pre-evangelism booklet.
‘The Road to Glory’ was produced by Deo Gloria in
conjunction with Christians in Sport, Damaris and Verite CM for the 2003-04
Football season. It was the first time we had produced anything for the
domestic football scene (although the Premiership is watched world-wide). All
our other projects of this type have been for World Cups or European Football
Championships (see below).
 The take up on these booklets
were slightly less than we had hoped, about 12,000 were distributed. So for the
time being we do not have any plans to produce anything for the 2004-05 season
(It’s too late now anyway!)
The Ultimate Goal – Pocket Guide to the 2004 European
Football Championships
The other big project has been the Ultimate Goal -
souvenir guide to the 2004 European Football Championships held in Portugal. We
sold out of this booklet, even after a re-print just before the tournament
started. A total of 35,000 booklets (our most ever for a sports related booklet
like this) were distributed. |
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 In 1996, we went into
partnership with Christians in Sport, CPO - Design & Print
and International Bible Society in producing a souvenir booklet for the
European Football Championships, which were being held in England that year. We
produced a booklet entitled “The Ultimate Goal”, which
featured a ‘fill-in’ match programme section, BBC commentator John
Motson’s lowdown on the star players of the tournament, testimonies of
Christian footballers and an outline of the gospel in a contemporary format. 83
000 copies were distributed in total, including 10 000 which CPO made available
at no charge to prisons in the UK.
 With the success of
“The Ultimate Goal”, plans were put into place to produce
another souvenir football booklet for the 1998 World Cup which was held in
France. “To Be The Best” followed the same formula as
“The Ultimate Goal”. Over 400 000 copies of the booklet were
distributed throughout the world in almost 50 different languages.
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 This format was changed
slightly for the European Football Championship held in Holland and Belgium in
2000. The booklet, imaginatively called “Euro 2000 - Pocket
Guide” was now reduced to a handy pocket size.
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Euro 2000 Distribution |
| Belgium |
40 000 |
| France |
5 000 |
| Holland |
55 000 |
| Moldova |
5 000 |
| Romania |
15 000 |
| UK |
38 000 |
| TOTAL |
158 000 |
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CPO - Design & Print and Christians in
Sport have also taken this formula to other sports such as Rugby Union
(Rugby Union World Cup 1999 - “On the Winning Side”), Cricket
(Cricket World Cup 1999 - “Cricket - a Different Spin”) and
Athletics (Olympics 2000 - “More than Gold”).
 We also roduced souvenir
booklets for the Commonwealth Games held in Manchester and for the football
World Cup which took place in Japan and South Korea.
“More Than Champions” was our first foray
into producing evangelistic videos. Teaming up with Christians in Sport,
Christian Television Association and SP Trust in 1997, we produced this video featuring 6 Christian
Sports Personalities. It was presented by former athlete Kriss Akabusi and
featured each person giving an outline of their testimony and how they live as
a professional sportsman/woman and a Christian.
If you are interested in sport, why not check out the
Christians in Sport website:
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