As seems to be common, the week following an international break sort of works as a slow start back into the stream of futbol. The great matches don't start until the Champions League picks up on Tuesday. Most clubs are back in action this weekend, but there aren't any marquee matchups to talk about.

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It is Friday, which means it is time to prepare for non-stop action from Spain with La Liga back in the fray. After an intense week of World Cup qualifying playoffs, the focus turns back to the domestic responsibilities.

The times listed are Eastern Standard Time (EST) and include the pregame pleasantries, although sometimes the matches on the DIRECTV La Liga specific channels may not go to match coverage until right before kickoff.

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Late again this week, but this time I'm blaming being busy in Buenos Aires, though I am. This week, I'm blaming the off again/on again wifi that I have where I am living in Buenos Aires. I move next week and I'm hoping it will improve then.

European club football takes the weekend off, so there are fewer much fewer matches this week than in recent weeks.

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Sorry futbol fans as I am again a little late with the television listings again this week, but it still is busy for us here in Buenos Aires and as long as we get the listings posted by Friday evening, we feel we're doing pretty well and we hope that everything is here in time to do you some good.

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With the confusing TV schedules for La Liga in the United States every week, it is quite difficult to figure out who is playing when and on what channel. Every Friday, I will lay out the TV schedule so that every fan of La Liga has a place to go to see when and where their favorite team will play.

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I know this is kind of late, but things have been busy here in Buenos Aires. Look for the Stadium Tour entries to continue as I was able to attend the Boca Juniors / Chacarita Juniors match at La Bombonera on Thursday.

Putting together this list just keeps getting more and more frustrating.

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I attribute it to the fact that I got on this late this week, but ESPN has its schedules up, so the list below should be pretty thorough.

As we return to club action this weekend (Thank God!!!), we have a large set of great games and most of them are going to take place on Saturday. Unfortunately, that is going to result in three of the best matches taking place at the same time.

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Welcome back, football fans. For the moment, I'm temporarily suspending my feud with ESPN. (I call it a feud even though I believe that in order for it to actually be a feud, ESPN would have to start arguing with me or, at least, recognize that I exist.) It does appear that ESPN has posted it's schedule for the weekend with days to spare for a change, for what it's worth given the few games being broadcast, so those matches are included below.

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I previewed Wednesday's Chivas USA-CD Guadalajara game Wednesday at the Rose Bowl. Read the column here.

BTW, two Chivas USA players - Gerson Mayen and Jorge Flores - won't play because they, along with UCLA goalkeeper Brian Perk and midfielder Michael Stevens, are in Egypt preparing for the FIFA Under-20 World Cup that starts Thursday.

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Perhaps the most difficult to do this week (aside from getting information on ESPN 360's schedule while in Europe) is limiting the games in the list of the weekly best to just five. Unlike a few weeks ago, there are no major marquee matchups, but there are just so many good ones to choose from.

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Sorry to be a little lax in the posting recently, but we here at WCR are getting ready for the new WCR Top 25. Okay, even though the new edition should be much more meaningful, at least with respect to certain regions, the main reason for the laxness is that we are traveling.

The travelling will affect this weeks television listing in a few ways.

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With an international week upon us, there will be no action, televised or otherwise, in most of the world's top domestic leagues. Despite the international break, however, and despite the fact that Brazil, Mexico and the United States are participating in World Cup qualifiers, those three nations' domestic leagues all will see reduced-strength clubs playing in local action. Click to continue reading...

Hail, hail the season has arrived!!! And arrived in fantastic fashion, at that. This week, we have it all. No matter where your heart lies, there probably is a great match taking place there this weekend. England? The Gunners are heading to Old Trafford to take on defending Premiership champions Manchester United. Click to continue reading...

The result may not have satisfied Liverpool supporters, but the coverage of ESPN USA's first Monday afternoon Premier League game of the season was splendid to watch.

Instead of utilizing the cast of characters from Bristol, CT, ESPN wisely decided to use the feed from ESPN UK.

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Keeping track of all of the ways that soccer fans in the United States can watch the sport on television suddenly got very confusing in the past week with the addition of ESPN2 to the Premier League TV rights package, as well as the glittering array of Champions League matches being shown across Fox's TV networks nationwide.

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The time many of you have been waiting for is here. The English Premiership season debuts this weekend!!!! Though I'm aware that some of you still are patiently awaiting the beginning of La Liga and Serie A, but this weekend's debuts are enough to celebrate. We can celebrate the other debuts in the next few weeks. Click to continue reading...

According to EPL Talk.com, ESPN has acquired the TV rights to two of the weekly Premier League slots on US television for the 2009-2010 season. With FSC now having Champions League soccer and ESPN Prem games, it seems that soccer on TV in the US has been turned on it's head. Beginning on August 15, 2009, each week ESPN will feature the 6:45am CT Saturday game and the 2pm CT Monday game.

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According to EPL Talk.com, ESPN has acquired the TV rights to two of the weekly Premier League slots on US television for the 2009-2010 season. With FSC now having Champions League soccer and ESPN Prem games, it seems that soccer on TV in the US has been turned on it's head. Beginning on August 15, 2009, each week ESPN will feature the 6:45am CT Saturday game and the 2pm CT Monday game.

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I must have missed it while I was on vacation, but ESPN 360 is FINALLY available to those of us who use Comcast as their internet service provider (ISP). I have been frustrated numerous times over the last several years when ESPN made a game available exclusively on 360 and while a good share of the country could watch, we Comcast customers were left wanting.

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I must have missed it while I was on vacation, but ESPN 360 is FINALLY available to those of us who use Comcast as their internet service provider (ISP). I have been frustrated numerous times over the last several years when ESPN made a game available exclusively on 360 and while a good share of the country could watch, we Comcast customers were left wanting.

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Once again, the soccer world shifts into a higher gear, this being August and everything, and once again, we have new entries into the weekend football television schedule. This week, the two new additions of note are the Bundesliga on GolTV and Ligue Un on Setanta USA as the German and French leagues begin play this weekend. Click to continue reading...

OTWT home office is a buzz as ESPN 360 is up and running that means more preseason games for the second installment of the preseason notebook.
• After a terrible Champions League Final United's Anderson looks like he is going to grow up a little.
• He might not be Ronnie, but few are, Valencia might be better then people think. Click to continue reading...

As we head into August, the real action begins. The big news of the football television world is that Friday begins the opening weekend of the Eredivisie, with Ajax and PSV both being broadcast on ESPN 360 and the PSV match also being broadcast on ESPN Deportes. The other relatively exciting action takes place in Spain where the most star-studded of the pre-season tournaments concludes. Click to continue reading...

ESPN today announced that several summer friendlies involving Premier League teams will be shown on ESPN360, its broadband product, this summer.

The games that will be shown live on ESPN360 are:

• Sunderland vs. Atletico Madrid, July 26, 1pm ET
• Chelsea vs. Club America, July 26, 7pm ET
• Manchester United vs.

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It's beginning to feel like we're back, baby!!! True, most of the matches involving good clubs this weekend are exhibitions and don't count for much, but there are a butt-load of matches on television and some of the top clubs are involved. It's a great way to get back into gear for the regular season. Click to continue reading...

We're a little late this week with the television schedule, but we've been a little under the weather here at WCR, but hopefully we're not too late.
Once again, following an exciting midweek of action, there is not a lot going on in club football this weekend. The two major highlights of the weekend football world, at least on American television, are the Gold Cup quarterfinals and exhibition action featuring European clubs taking on North American, hmm, competition. Click to continue reading...

Once again, the dearth of football action on television is pretty deep this weekend, but there are a few pockets of action worth watching. In North America, the final leg of the group stage of the Gold Cup takes place Friday through Sunday, primarily on Spanish-language networks. In South America, Defensor Sporting and Nacional continue their seemingly never-ending battle for the championship of Uruguay on Sunday. Click to continue reading...

Okay, we are finally hitting rock bottom with the lack of world football on television. Only the need for continuity inspires me even to post this week's edition of the weekly football schedule. But OCD I am, so the list must go on.
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The world of football gets quieter and quieter as it always does this time of year, but it's not silent because, well, there's always SOMETHING going on, isn't there? This week, there are two major items of note. The first comes out of South Africa. The Confederations Cup third-place match and championship both take place on Sunday. Click to continue reading...

On English language websites yesterday the big news surrounding ESPN is about the network acquiring Setanta's package to air Premier League matches in the UK. But perhaps bigger news was made stateside as ESPN returned to showing regular European league football for the first time since losing La Liga rights in the early part of this decade.

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Even now, during the off-season, we still have football on television during the weekend. There's not nearly as much, and it may not be as important (though that is debatable), but it's out there if you need it. Frankly, I need it.
The highlight of the weekend, of course, is the final group stage matches of the Copa Libertadores. Click to continue reading...

There's going to be some nice International futbol on ESPN/ESPN2 over the next two weeks, including the US with games against Italy, Brazil and Egypt. The Confederations Cup kicks off Sunday with two games, both on ESPN2:

Sunday, June 14th
South Africa vs Iraq (Johannesburg) Group A, 9am, ESPN2/360.

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There's going to be some nice International futbol on ESPN/ESPN2 over the next two weeks, including the US with games against Italy, Brazil and Egypt. The Confederations Cup kicks off Sunday with two games, both on ESPN2:

Sunday, June 14th
South Africa vs Iraq (Johannesburg) Group A, 9am, ESPN2/360.

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The 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup (the eighth Confederations Cup) will be held in South Africa from 14 June to 28 June 2009 as a prelude to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Note: You can watch the 2009 Confederations Cup live thanks to our friends at the Live Sport Network.

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The club season is over in most of Europe, and that means that summer is here and football on television will be relatively non-existent. We do, however, get to ease into the transition because this week, there are several international matches, mostly World Cup qualifiers, but a few friendlies, that will be on all over your television set. Click to continue reading...