With no promotion or effort from FOX Sports, the two Bundesliga matches that aired on FS1 this past Saturday averaged 298,500 viewers. The highly anticipated derby between Dortmund and Schalke averaged 365,000 viewers, which was followed by the more "user-friendly" kick-off time of 12:30PM ET for Frankfurt-Borussia Monchengladbach that netted 232,000 viewers. Looking at the […]

As the last and final European soccer league that FOX Sports has the rights to in the United States, the German Bundesliga is unfortunately on the receiving end of FOX's declining interest in the global game. Sure, FOX Sports still have the rights to FIFA World Cup tournaments, Gold Cup and Major League Soccer, but […]

The more things change, the more they stay the same with FOX Sports. With no other major sports on U.S. television and the return of the Bundesliga around the corner, FOX Sports have the opportunity — as the rights-holder to the German league in the United States — to broadcast actual live sports to a wider audience […]

Within 12 hours of the DFL announcing that the Bundesliga will resume their 2019/20 season on May 16, Spanish-language broadcaster TUDN has announced which games they will be broadcasting next weekend. TUDN, previously known as Univision Deportes, shares the U.S. Spanish-language rights with FOX Deportes. As of press time, FOX Sports have not announced which […]

Growing up, Blockbuster Video was an essential place. You could go there to rent movies and video games. The critical mistake Blockbuster made was that they could’ve bought Netflix for $50 million but they turned that down. Years later, Blockbuster went out of business, but in their place, Gamefly has filled the void by renting […]

Mention the name Peter Ward to any Brighton and Hove Albion supporter, and expect to hear memories of one of the greatest players ever to wear the blue shirt of the south coast England club. The striker, now 64, still retains Brighton's goalscoring record when he netted 36 goals during the 1976-77 season, winning him […]

Many leagues around the world, fueled by the fear of fading TV money, are thinking about playing games behind closed doors with quarantined athletes. As Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a recent interview, “[p]ut [athletes] in big hotels, wherever you want to play, keep them very well surveilled and have them tested every week and […]

For some reason, there is a lack of quality fictional literature centered around soccer. As the top 20 soccer books list shows, the overwhelming majority of the best soccer books are nonfiction, and even the best one (The Damned United, don’t @ me) is heavily reliant on an actual event. As the World Soccer Talk […]

There's no doubt that ever since NBC won the U.S. media rights to the Premier League in 2013, they've done an excellent job in covering the world's most popular league in a multitude of ways. Whether it was through their studio shows, podcasts and documentaries, they've always provided a unique inside look into what makes […]

Yes, soccer fans. There is still live soccer being played, and it's now available for viewing in the United States. For fans craving the ability to watch live soccer games, the Belarusian Football Federation has begun streaming live matches from the Belarusian Premier League on YouTube. Previously, the games livestreamed via the league's website were […]

The 2018/19 Bundesliga season for Borussia Dortmund was one to remember. Although they came short of the title, their season was compelling enough to be documented with a television series. The four-part Amazon Prime documentary series, directed by German filmmaker Aljoscha Pause, starts during Dortmund’s winter training camp in Spain in January 2019. At this […]

As video game systems have progressed and technology continues to advance, many people assume that the games will continue to improve. Unfortunately, that’s not the case when it comes to sports video games. The career mode is my favorite feature in the FIFA video game series. It allows players to either compete as a manager […]

FOX Sports soccer analyst Ian Joy has announced that he will be leaving the network at the end of the 2019/20 Bundesliga season, World Soccer Talk has learned. “I’m excited for what is next,” Joy, who’s leaving his FOX job after five years at the network, told World Soccer Talk in an interview. "I've had […]

In compiling this feature on the top 20 soccer book recommendations, I realized that one of the privileges I’ve had over the years is to review books for World Soccer Talk. And the number of books I’ve read has shown me that the market for really good soccer reading has increased. I've created my list […]

Amazon Prime Video recently made available many of the official FIFA World Cup films that capture one of the greatest-ever golden periods of world soccer. Currently, with many soccer leagues shut down across much of the world, I rewatched the official films from the 1978 World Cup (hosted in Argentina) as well as 1982 (hosted […]