I've got to confess that I don't really like football, but I liked this mascot for the World Cup of 1982. I was a kid and the character was simple, colorful, and looked fun.

At the time I lived quite near Spain, so I recognize this character more from the merchandising that was around than from the cartoon. He was on loads of t-shirts, on school material... everywhere!

The TV show, however, was something else. It focused heavily on historical live footage of the teams and the sport, and very little on actual plot and animation. Still, a lot of fun!

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Animated series adventures based on the Soccer World Cup of 1982 with the official mascot has the main character, Naranjito. Naranjito was accompanied by his friends Clementine, Citronio and Imarchi the robot.

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