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Starbucks, Amazon team up on sports documentary series

July 2, 2019

Starbucks and Amazon have collaborated on a six-part documentary series focused on the passion, emotion and humanity of European football, or what Americans commonly call soccer. 

The series, "This is Football," debuts Friday, Aug. 2 and offers one-hour episodes highlighting "powerful, human stories," according to a Starbucks news post. The series takes viewers from Iceland and Rwanda to Japan and Spain.

"Each episode's story has a theme based on universals of the human experience told through the lens of the sport — hope, wonder, faith, redemption, chance and love," stated the news post.