With the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League Group Stage kicking off this week, most soccer fans in the United States had their first taste of soccer coverage from TNT. Dominant Spanish-language TV broadcaster Univision Deportes also aired their first Champions League games including some of the more high-profile matches on the over-the-air Univision channel. But how […]

Saying it's been a tumultuous summer for Real Madrid would be a massive understatement. Fresh off an unprecedented third consecutive Champions League title that well and truly solidified their place atop the European footballing world, everything began to crumble very suddenly. First was their manager. Zinedine Zidane took over Los Blancos at a difficult time, […]

I’ve been writing for World Soccer Talk since May, 2014. As you may know, I mainly handle match previews of US Men's National Team games, but I also write stories about attendances and TV ratings. This past Tuesday, I was afforded the opportunity of being able to go to Nashville to cover the USA-Mexico game […]

Univision Deportes already has made Liga MX one of the most popular soccer leagues on television in the United States, but now the Spanish-language broadcaster is ready to dive head first into European soccer when it launches its coverage of the UEFA Champions League and Europa League group stages next week. The addition of the […]

This season's UEFA Champions League tournament will be the biggest change for soccer fans in the United States since the games moved from ESPN to FOX Sports in 2009. The big changes mean that there are some big winners and losers. Here's our breakdown of who will win and lose based on the massive changes: […]

With the US media rights for the UEFA Champions League having changed hands, we say goodbye to FOX Sports and ESPN Deportes's coverage of the world's greatest soccer club competition and hello to TNT and Univision Deportes who are preparing for their first-ever broadcasts of the UEFA Champions League group stage. But what can we […]

Well the series of post-World Cup friendlies (ludicrously called the Kickoff Series) has gotten off to the start that just about everybody expected it to: with a loss to Brazil. For most of the game, the US youngsters were outclassed, outmatched and outgunned. Not that it was unexpected. Brazil is one of the top teams […]

Arsenal’s Hector Bellerin is quite the polarizing player. Even is own team’s fanbase is fairly split on whether or not the Spaniard is a top player. In fact, audible groans from inside the Emirates can be heard over televisions all over the world whenever the 23-year-old defender makes even the slightest mistake on the pitch. […]

The World Cup is over and it’s now time for the USMNT to being a new World Cup cycle. It’s been almost a year since they failed to qualify for the 2018 edition in Russia but many of the players and fans are attempting to put all of that in the rearview mirror and focus […]

Soccer fans should be fuming mad that both DIRECTV and Comcast Xfinity have decided not to renew their agreements with beIN SPORTS to carry the home of La Liga on US television. Thankfully, there are other options to get your LaLiga and beIN SPORTS fix. 1) fuboTV Out of all of the legal streaming solutions […]

After last season's successful Premier League Fan Fest in New York City, NBC Sports will be hosting more festivals on the road this season with the first one scheduled for Saturday, September 29 in Washington DC. Entitled Premier League Mornings Live, the fan festival will include a turf pitch, the Premier League trophy, club mascots, […]

Why is it that when watching Paul Pogba play for Manchester United it’s like watching a totally different player from the one who plays for France? Why does he excel in one system far more than the other? Pogba fulfills a different role for club than he does for country. For France, he’s praised as […]

Manchester City visit Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday aiming to maintain their perfect start to the Premier League season. City have comfortably defeated Arsenal and Huddersfield Town in their opening two games to show that they won't give up their title easily this term. Wolves have picked up just one point since winning promotion and they […]

fuboTV made a big splash today in the battle between streaming providers by adding several channels from Turner that will appeal to many soccer fans in the United States. With the addition of the Turner channels, this now means that fuboTV has both the English-language and Spanish-language coverage of the UEFA Champions League and Europa […]

Beginning a season with consecutive defeats is never a good thing. Being six points behind fellow top four favorites right off the bat immediately puts unwanted pressure on a club. This is especially the case when a new manager is at the helm. All of these things apply to Arsenal at the moment. Despite these […]