Scooby and the gang are in Brazil for the World Soccer Cup. Shaggy and Scooby get chased by a mysterious monster called Eshu after Scooby tries to fetch a lost soccer ball. From then on, it's a battle between Eshu and the gang to find the soccer ball — and find out why the culprit wants it.
Tropes:
- Absent-Minded Professor: Professor Perez, the inventor of the formula is intruded making his morning coffee as if it was a vital scientific experiment, gets too excited for the gang to properly introduce themselves and apparently made his bouncing formula without a perfect idea of how to stop the constantly bouncing ball.
- Accidental Athlete: Scooby (and the erratically bouncing ball) wins the soccer game for Brazil.
- Artistic License – Sports: After a Brazilian player is sent off, the referee has him replaced by the nearest thing in a Brazilian kit (which happens to be Scooby-Doo). Trouble is, a player with a red card cannot be substituted - that's the entire point!
- Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Julio Luna, the host of the world cup is constantly driving around in a golf cart, being asked questions about the expense of the event and having to deal with communication snafus.
- Continuity Nod: Diane, the sports official from Scooby-Doo! Spooky Games, cameos here.
- Did Not Think This Through: Professor Perez didn't come up with an idea to stop the endlessly bouncing formula-infused balls before he came up with the formula. He comments that stopping it is always the hard part.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: The culprit is the labs security guard who was onscreen for perhaps a minute.
- Humble Goal: The villain's plan for the profits of the stolen formula is simply to fund his childhood dream of being a magician.
- MacGuffin: The soccer ball, or more specifically the valuable (and stolen) liquid it absorbed, giving it super-bouncy powers.
- Revealing Cover Up: The culprit used the Eshu disguise to keep from being connected to the ball theft. The problem is, a monster running loose attracts the gang's attention and gets him caught.
- Sadly Mythtaken: Eshu is indeed a trickster, but he isn't native to Brazil. He's from Africa.
