Discovery Match Day
Discovery Plus premieres sports docuseries “Matchday – Inside FC Barcelona” an exclusive 8-episode all-access specialwith FC Barcelona
The 8-part docuserieswill give fans all-access toone of the world’s most popular and successful soccer clubs andFC Barcelonaplayers’like Lionel Messi, Gerard Piqué, PhilippeCoutinho,Marc-André Ter Stegenand Clement Lengletamongst others
October 21, 2020–Discovery Plus, India’s first aggregated real-life entertainment streaming app, is launching an8 episodic docuseries “Matchday – Inside FC Barcelona” through which viewers can enjoy exclusive never-seen-before footage ofFC Barcelona squad during the 2018/19 season. For the first time in India, football fans can witness the everyday lives of players such as Leo Messi, Philippe Coutinho, Gerard Piqué and Marc-André terStegenamong others, offering an intimate portrait of them both during competition and in their personal lives.
The Matchday series produced by Barça Studios -the hub for creation, production and commercialisation of FC Barcelona’s audio-visual content products- with the collaboration of Rakuten,is streaming on Discovery Plus starting October 12, and is narrated by Academy Award NomineeJohn Malkovich. The series capturesthe ex citement and thrill of following one of the most loved clubs in the world andbrings to the fore numeroustou ching stories of the team and its superstars from the pivotal 2018/2019 season.
Each chapter of Matchday will focus on a crucial game of the 2018/19 season, which becomes the common background for a number of stories about protagonists from the club that players, managers, staff etc.Each episodewill allow viewers to experience ‘from inside’ how players faced all those important matches, from their arrival to the dressing room to their stepping out onto the pitch. Matchday also presents fly-on-the-wall footage of the highs of victory and how the players deal with defeats.
Discovery Plus will release these eight episodes over the next 8 weeks on Mondays at 6 am and the episodes will also be available in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
