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Today, the EK soccer league starts again. 25 years ago, CD-i was on the forefront at the EK 1996 matches in bringing online scores right on your CD-i player

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There are quite some soccer related CD-i titles on the market and especially in The Netherlands we have CD-i titles supporting specific themes/clubs, like AJAX, the UEFA Champions League or the World Cup, including free demo discs that were given away with CD-i Magazine. There's also a dutch exclusive 'Nederlands Elftal Compleet' - promoting the Euro 96 soccer matches, exactly 25 years ago now. Today, the 2020 EK soccer matches start (one year postponed due to the corona pandemic), this time without CD-i... 1996 was one of the final active years for CD-i and it was also the year of Euro 1996 in England, the EK soccer matches. 
 
Together with the release of CD-Online and the internet functionality of CD-i this was combined in a few online CD-i titles: This title, the Dutch "Nederlands Elftal Compleet" was the first commercial CD-i with built-in internet connection. I can only think of a handful of titles that made use of this, but there was a CD-Online logo on the front cover of each title that included online functionality. In the case of "Nederlands Elftal Compleet", while the EK soccer matches were ongoing, the scores of all matches were uploaded on the CD-Online server and this title filled in the scores in its own tables.

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