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/ 4340 days agoBarcelona Put £45million Price Tag On Cesc Fabregas
F.C. Barcelona has reportedly put a £45million price tag on Cesc Fabregas’ transfer fee. The Spanish club is looking to trade a few of their players if the right price comes in, trying to clean house and make room for new talent. Two clubs with reported interest in Fabregas are English clubs Manchester United and […]

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/ 4342 days agoCatch Up On 6 of the ESPN 30 For 30 Soccer Series Films You May Have Missed [VIDEO]
Part of ESPN's 2014 World Cup coverage included eight new 30 For 30 documentaries with two feature length films and six shorter 30-minute films. All eight films have covered a range of topics including national tragedies in Ireland and England to the disappearing of the Jules Rimet Trophy, each as exciting and different as the […]

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/ 4345 days agoUS Soccer Appoints Jill Ellis as New USWNT Head Coach
The United States Women’s National team has named Jill Ellis as the new head coach, who served as interim coach after Tom Sermanni was fired in April. This will be the third head coach the USWNT has had in the last two years and the eighth head coach in the team's history. Currently ranked number one […]

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/ 4346 days agoNBC Scores Big with 31 Million Total Viewers of 2013-2014 Premier League Season
NBC’s presentation of the 2013-2014 Premier League season reached a total of 31.5 million viewers, including almost 5 million for their coverage of Championship Sunday. For the first time ever all 380 matches were shown on live television, 196 matches shown on NBCUniversal networks and 184 were shown on Premier League Extra time TV packages […]

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/ 4347 days agoESPN Adds Classic World Cup Games to Programming Schedule
With the World Cup only a month away, ESPN is bringing even more coverage with the combination of re-airing of classic World Cup matches as well as friendlies, which will air on ESPN Classic. Along with the games, ESPN Classic is scheduling repeats of their 30for30: Soccer Stories series. Here's the updated schedule of World […]

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/ 4348 days agoTickets Are Available for Liverpool vs Olympiacos Game In Chicago
Tickets are still available for the International Champions Cup game between Liverpool and Olympiacos, who will face off in Chicago on July 27th at Soldier Field. Both teams have been placed in Group B with Manchester City and AC Milan. Soldier Field has been the home to the National Football League’s Chicago Bears since 1971 […]

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/ 4348 days agoESPN to Broadcast TV Segments On USMNT, Messi, Pele, Dempsey and Qatar Tonight
Tonight is a big TV night for soccer fans in the United States. As the start date of the World Cup fast approaches, ESPN is planning a full schedule of friendly matches, documentaries and insight into the USMNT’s preparations for Brazil. Beginning tonight, May 13th at 7pm EST, ESPN will show the first of a […]

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/ 4348 days agoOrlando City Soccer Club Reveals MLS Logo
The 21st MLS team, Orlando City Soccer Club, has announced its new logo for its upcoming 2015 season where they will be participating in MLS play for the first time. David Brotherton, a fan and graphic-designer who purchased season tickets in 2011, designed their new lion logo. Brotherton also submitted designs for a stadium and ideas […]

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/ 4348 days agoBrazil Struggling to Finish Preparations in Time For World Cup 2014
Brazil is not finished with preparations for the 2014 World Cup, despite the kick off being only five weeks away. The first game is set to take place in Sao Paulo’s Itaquera stadium between the host nation and Croatia on June 12th. However, a quarter of the stadiums across the country are not finished. Many of […]

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/ 4349 days agoChelsea Agree £32million Fee For Diego Costa, Says Report
Chelsea has agreed a £32million fee with Atletico Madrid for striker Diego Costa, according to Sky Sports sources. Costa is reportedly in talks to secure a transfer to Chelsea sometime this summer. The English club is trying to tie up contracts and are most likely to make an announcement by June. Both parties want to […]

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/ 4349 days agoTV Rating For Premier League Season Finale Up 79% Compared to Last Year
NBCUniversal scored a big gain in its viewership of 10 games on 10 networks on Sunday with a 1.56 metered market rating when combined for all games, according to The Nielsen Company. This number is up 79% from the previous 2011-2012’s Championship Sunday coverage that featured six games on six channels across FOX and ESPN […]
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/ 4349 days agoMLS And USSF Announce $90 Million Per Season TV Deal
Major League Soccer and the United States Soccer Federation are set to announce an eight-year contract with ESPN and FOX Sports today at 1pm ET. The multi-network contract is said to be valued at $75 million a year between both networks as well as an added $15 million from Univision for an exclusive Spanish-language deal. […]

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/ 4353 days agoChelsea Manager Jose Mourinho Fined £10,000 For "Fantastic" Comments; Escapes Ban
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been fined £10,000 for comments made about referee Mike Dean and referees' chief Mike Riley after Chelsea lost to Sunderland by a score of 2-1 on April 19. Meanwhile, Mourinho’s assistant Rui Faria was recently given a 6-match stadium ban following his reaction to the referee's calls during a previous Premier […]

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/ 4353 days agoNBC Sports Shares More Details About 'Championship Sunday' TV Coverage
For the first time in the history of soccer on US television, all 10 weekend Premier League matches will be shown live via US cable and network television. When NBCUniversal purchased the rights to the English Premier League in a three-year deal worth $250 million, they probably didn’t foresee this exciting of a season with […]

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/ 4353 days agoLouis van Gaal Says He Would Love to be Manchester United Manager
Louis van Gaal, the current head coach of the Netherlands team, is reportedly going to be offered the position of manager at Manchester United early as next week. “I would love the job. I hope that I shall be the one. It's the biggest club in the world and it's a fantastic challenge,” said Van Gaal […]