LONDON, U.K. – Sports streamer DAZN will debut a new interview series this week when The Making Of drops Friday.
The show, available to all subscribers, re-lives “the significant games that helped define football’s greatest modern icons, featuring global superstars Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr and legendary football manager José Mourinho,” reads the press release.
The 9×25’ series takes an immersive, in-depth look into their career-defining games where each one re-tells the stories surrounding three of their most meaningful matches. The interviews are accompanied by clips from other players who took to the pitches that night, including John O’Shea, Rafael Alcántara, Fernando Santos, Roberto Carlos and Julio Cesar, journalists who covered the game and fans who were in the stadiums.
The series, for example, will see Ronaldo relive his famous appearance for Sporting Lisbon against Manchester United in 2003, while Mourinho looks back on his well-known Champions League victory over Manchester United with Porto in 2004, that saw him famously sprint down the touchline at Old Trafford in celebration.
The Making Of, the streamer’s first globally available series, will be available on DAZN in all nine of its current markets. It follows other original content such as In Our Blood, the documentary film Being Mario Götze, three-part documentary series Canelo vs. Rocky and 40 Days and ABOUT, which were available in select markets.
“Our original programming strategy is about creating iconic content that complements our extensive premium live-sport offering and engages viewers,” said James Rushton, DAZN’s chief revenue officer, in the press release. “It’s about driving engagement, retention and mass brand awareness around the biggest sporting cultural moments. DAZN is changing the way the world sees sport, and we want fans to expect the best sport programmes from us as another reason to get DAZN, alongside show stopping live content.”
