• If the Canadian Men's Team Plays a Match, and Nobody in Canada sees it, Does it Make a Sound? http://tinyurl.com/yz9kce2 #
• Canada prepares in Skopje http://bit.ly/1SZrEb #
• Johnson, Onstad & Hainault set to play key roles in MLS final four http://tinyurl.com/yckve6x #
• Stephen Hart looking forward to Canada friendlies http://tinyurl.

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The U17 World Cup wraps up this weekend. One of the semifinals begin tomorrow (Thursday) with COLOMBIA-SWITZERLAND, live at 8:55 am on Galavision. The Final is Sunday November 15th, and ESPN2 will be broadcasting the game live at 11:45 am.

In addition to the U17 games, Saturday begins the final qualifying rounds for World Cup 2010.

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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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Hola amigos y amigas! Burrito here with the latest Miami Soccer news!
We still no know in what league Miami FC will play next years. Will it be USL? Will it be MLS-2? We don't know, pero the team has made a commitment that they will play next year and Burrito has found out from drunken sources in the last tailgate at Lockhearts stadium that Miami FC plans to build a superdupper teams consisting of young and veteran players ! Click to continue reading...

Yuck. You stay up late on a Saturday night to watch the team play in Los Angeles and wish you hadn't bothered. I am detecting a trend. I was on vacation for the victory in San Jose, so I admit that my trend is selective. The last time TFC looked this bad to my eyes on a Saturday night was on the road in Utah against Real Salt Lake. Click to continue reading...

The Mad About Fútbol Show continues to bring in new guests and expose our fans to different perspectives of the game all over the world.
In this week's show we will have none other than Bira Brasil. Yes the man, the color analyst for TV Globo in English as well as Gol TV's coverage of the Brazileirão and Paulistão was with us and he dropped crazy knowledge about the game in the land of futebol! Click to continue reading...

Well, the MLS International transfer window has passed on the Lake Ontario breeze once again with only a Fellinga to show for it. While its never a good policy to buy someone just because they are foreign (see Welsh, Tebily, Robert, Ruiz etc.), Toronto is a multicultural place and the fans do like to see that global flair. Click to continue reading...

Rodrigo Lombello the CEO of GOL TV, Shane O'Rourke the President of Setanta North America and Dermot McQuarrie the VP of Programing and Production for FSC join host Kartik Krishnaiyer to discuss football coverage plans for the new season.

Related posts:

1. Setanta Sports North America: For Sale?

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Big Story

It's that "crisis" word again. Following the Sweeper's report last Friday on the SPL's growing financial troubles, the Argentinian Football Association has announced it is canceling the league season's August 14th season opener across all divisions due to unpaid club debts totaling USD$182 million.

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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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As you can gather by reading this article from the New York Times, ESPN has purchased the broadcasting rights to Spain's La Liga starting with the next season. This appears to be an effort on ESPN's behalf to compensate for the loss of the broadcasting rights for the Champions League (I can here that song in my head now) to Fox Sports. Click to continue reading...

Bora Milutinovic couldn't do it. Steve Sampson couldn't do it. Bruce Arena couldn't do it. But Bob Bradley has accomplished it: consecutive games against Brazil where the US allowed three or more goals. Prior to the September 2007 friendly in Chicago the US had held Brazil to two or fewer goals in ten straight matchups, although the US lost nine of those games.

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The United States bombed out of the Confederations Cup with a 3-0 loss to Brazil. Phil Schoen of GOL TV and Martin Rogers of Yahoo! Sports join us to discuss the game and the current state of the US National Team. Among the topics discussed are Bob Bradley's tactics, Dunga's embrace of anti-football, the US player selection, and comparing this US team to past World Cup sides the US has fielded.

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• We will be releasing episode 89 of the MLS Talk Podcast tomorrow with MLS, USL and Open Cup news. Look for it early tomorrow afternoon.
• I will be at Tropical Park Stadium tonight for the Open Cup game between Miami FC and last year's runner up Charleston. You can look for my tweets on the game if you have a twitter account @kkfla737
• Episode 90 of MLS Talk Podcast/Brazil-US post game will feature Phil Schoen from GOL TV and Martin Rogers from Yahoo!

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Episode 82 features a round table discussion on South Florida's soccer scene and other US Soccer issues with two veteran journalists: Phil Schoen of GOL TV and Jeff Rusnak of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Among the topics discussed are US Soccer's development system, the collapse of the Barca Miami bid to join MLS and other South Florida related issues.

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We preview the 2009 UEFA Champions League final between FC Barcelona and Manchester United. Martin Rogers of Yahoo! Sports, Chris Oakley of Some People on the Pitch, Phil Schoen who calls LaLiga matches for GOL TV and South Florida Sun Sentinel Soccer writer Jeff Rusnak joins us.

Hear each of our guests feelings about the matchup in Roma as well as their feelings about the seasons both sides have had and some general thoughts about European Football.

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The Nutrilite Canadian Championship resumes tonight at 8pm in Toronto with TFC hosting Impact de Montreal in the Canadian derby. We will try to stream the game but here is GOL TV's pre-game coverage:

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One of the things we at MLS Rumors get excited about every year now is the Nutrilite Canadian Championship. It's a great tournament which provides a true test of the three major Canadian clubs: Toronto FC, Impact de Montréal and Vancouver Whitecaps FC with the winner going to the CONCACAF Champions League as Canada's lone representative. Click to continue reading...

ALL TIMES EST

Friday

Cleveland-Rochester 8pm FSC

Saturday

Bayern Munich- Gladbach 11:30 am GOL TVÂ (Michael Bradley)

Stoke City- West Ham Noon, FSC (Jonathan Spector)

Cruz Azul- Indios, 6pm ESPN Deportes/ Azteca America (Marco Vidal)

DC United-FC Dallas 7:30pm FSC

Pachuca-Chiapas 8pm Telefutura (Jose Fransisco Torres)

Sunday

Sunderland-Everton 11am FSC (Tim Howard)

New England-Houston 3pm Telefutura

Santos-San Luis 5pm Univision (Michael Orozco)

Washington- St Louis 6pm FSC

All MLS and USL-1 matches can be found on their respective cable and broadband packages.

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No DeRo. No wins in our last four. No confidence in me for this team to beat the MLS-leading Chivas USA, who are 4-0-1. We have a huge opportunity to make a point though. If we can beat the league's best team thus far, some of the fans can once again start believing in the potential of this team. It is no easy task, of course. Click to continue reading...

The day has finally arrived!
Only a few weeks ago Miami FC looked like it was a goner. But Traffic Sports has faith in South Florida and they have kept professional soccer alive. Traffic looks to be in this venture for the long run, so it is time for the fans to support this team and go to Lockhart Stadium tonight April 18 at 8pm as the Mighty "Blues" take on the Cleveland City Stars. Click to continue reading...

For the last couple of years, Gol TV has been thought of the third network of soccer in the United States, but over the last couple of months that appears to be changing. Gol TV has updated its network a lot in order to rival Setanta and FSC.
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Spanish rights broker, Mediapro, is launching a new football channel, Gol TV, via France Telecom's IPTV platform Orange TV, Variety reports. Click to continue reading...

Well obviously, you do!
But ever wonder who else reads MLSR? So did we.
So once again we present you a partial picture. Last time we presented some demographics of what type of people read MLSR. This time we give you a geographic breakdown, and even more interesting, a partial list of firms who have been checking us out. Click to continue reading...

Live from the Stadio Friuli in Udine Italy, Italy vs. Georgia in World Cup 2010 Qualifying.   Television coverage in North America is available on both Gol TV and Gol TV Canada, Sept 10th @ 2:45 pm EST, with a match repeat @ 9:00 pm on both Gol TV and Gol TV Canada. (also available on RAI international) match preview to follow [. Click to continue reading...

According to this Wikipedia entry, Fox Sports World, now Fox Soccer Channel (FSC), launched in late 1997. This was the beginning, as far as I know, of the current availability of decent Football programming in the US. I got the channel about 2 years after its launch, and from that time, it's had great coverage of England's Premier League - Arsenal and Manchester United in particular. Click to continue reading...

Foto: Marlon TorresVia Corporación Deportiva América - Helin Roa Arana
Luis Tejada llegó esta mañana para unirse a la concentración del cuadro americano, que mañana tendrá un importante encuentro frente al Envigado en donde buscará la clasificación a la final de la Copa Mustang I.
El delantero, quien suma once goles en el campeonato colombiano, viene de jugar con la Selección de su país las eliminatorias mundialistas de la Concacaf y será una de las piezas claves del técnico Diego Umaña para marcar ante el equipo paisa y obtener la victoria que no consiguió en Bogotá. Click to continue reading...

Tickle v Tackle is normally a mid-week column, but . . . Fullback's Mega-Tackle of the Week: Who the hell was that hyperkinetic fool GolTV had doing the play-by-play for Barcelona-Levante? I just flicked on the tube while folding some laundry and got steamrollered by this idiot blathering on about 'Dinho (Ronaldinho, I presume) and how he'd work at GolTV for free because it's so freakin' Click to continue reading...

Call it the calm before the storm.

The Champions League returns this week with some amazing match-ups. Unfortunately, the weekend before those match-ups is light on marquee fixtures. With the FA Cup in action this weekend you have one amazing match, Arsenal vs. Manchester United, but you'll need to see that at a bar or pub (or pay per view perhaps?

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Oliver Tse from SoccerTV.com is reporting that IMG Media has announced it will discontinue its soccer magazine TV show FIFA Futbol Mundial at the end of 2007 as part of IMG's latest restructuring effort.
Since its launch in 1994, the show has been one of the best soccer programs on television with comprehensive reports and interviews from all corners of the globe. Click to continue reading...

During an international break, it's an unusual experience watching Euro 2008 qualifiers in the United States. The most talked about match, England against Israel, isn't even on U.S. television (it's only available via pay-per-view, so you have a choice between paying $30 to watch it at home, or pay $20 at the pub).
So, if you instead choose to watch Fox Soccer Channel on Saturday, you get to see three live matches which are 'B' matches that will be very predictable and won't create much excitement:

• Russia v Macedonia, 11am ET
  
• San Marino v Czech Republic, 2pm ET
  
• Iceland v Spain, 4pm ET

Setanta Sports, meanwhile, will be showing 'B' matches also such as:

• Malta v Turkey, 4:30pm ET
• Serbia v Finland, 6:30pm ET

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A GolTV spokeswoman has confirmed that GolTV has decided not to continue its coverage of Arsenal TV and Liverpool TV. The 24/7 soccer network aired the shows last season.
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Episode seven of the Major League Soccer Podcast features and interview with GOL TV's Lindsey Dean. Dean co-hosts GOL TV's weekly American Soccer show and is a former broadcaster for the New England Patriots (NFL), Boston Bolts (APSL, the forerunner of today's USL), and the Miami Fusion (MLS). Dean discusses Copa America, the US National Team, MLS, and whether or not young Americans are better off in Europe among other topics in this interview. Click to continue reading...

Episode seven of the Major League Soccer Podcast features and interview with GOL TV's Lindsey Dean. Dean co-hosts GOL TV's weekly American Soccer show and is a former broadcaster for the New England Patriots (NFL), Boston Bolts (APSL, the forerunner of today's USL), and the Miami Fusion (MLS). Dean discusses Copa America, the US National Team, MLS, and whether or not young Americans are better off in Europe among other topics in this interview. Click to continue reading...

I'll be interviewing GOL TV's Ray Hudson, who of course is the former manager of the Miami Fusion and DC United on Monday. Anybody with any questions please submit them in the comments on this post. Thanks! Click to continue reading...