Caitlin O'Connell

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/ 4340 days ago

Barcelona 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 ago

Catch 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 ago

US 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 ago

NBC 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 ago

ESPN 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 ago

Tickets 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 ago

ESPN 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 ago

Orlando 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 ago

Brazil 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 ago

Chelsea 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 ago

TV 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 ago

MLS 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 ago

Chelsea 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 ago

NBC 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 ago

Louis 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 […]