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/ 2922 days ago

World Cup 2018 quarter-finals: Belgium can shock Brazil, England can progress

The 2018 World Cup in Russia has reached the quarter-final stage and eight teams are still dreaming of lifting football’s most prestigious trophy on July 15. Five-time winners Brazil are the 11/4 favourites to win the tournament, but the likes of France, Belgium and England are also firmly in contention. Read on as we look […]

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/ 2923 days ago

Schedule of World Cup commentators for quarterfinals on FOX and Telemundo

FOX Sports and Telemundo have announced their lineup of commentators for the crucial World Cup quarterfinals that will be played this Friday and Saturday. As no surprise, Derek Rae and Aly Wagner continue to announce England games and will be calling the Sweden-England quarterfinal on Saturday. The biggest matches are saved for the duo of […]

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/ 2923 days ago

What to watch when the World Cup is over

There's no denying it – this World Cup has been a bit of a belter. It's definitely one for unsung heroes with Italy and the Netherlands not even making it to the finals and Germany, Argentina, Spain and Portugal all exiting before the quarter final stage. Cracking game has followed cracking game – it's been […]

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/ 2926 days ago

Messi and Ronaldo go home with mixed legacy at World Cup

The dream of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing against each other in the World Cup ended as Argentina and Portugal both lost in their round of 16 contests. The five-time Ballon d’Or winners were both outplayed by a Paris Saint-Germain forward in their respective matches. Messi runs into young and hungry French opposition La […]

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/ 2926 days ago

fuboTV launches 4K HDR coverage of World Cup

FuboTV has launched 4K HDR10 support in Beta, becoming the first sports-streaming platform to offer content in ultra-high definition and high dynamic range. Starting today, main broadcasts of World Cup 2018 matches on FOX and FS1 are available in 4K HDR10 with fuboTV on all Chromecast and Fire TV devices that support the format. fuboTV […]

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/ 2926 days ago

Telemundo acquires Copa America TV for Spanish-language

On the heels of a very successful broadcast of the 2018 World Cup, Telemundo Deportes has acquired the Spanish-language broadcast rights to the 2019 Copa America. Hosted in Brazil, the 2019 Copa America will feature Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and invited teams from Japan and Qatar. The winner of […]

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/ 2927 days ago

5 recent Brazil-Mexico games from 2012 through 2015

Six times in a row. That’s how many consecutive times Mexico has been eliminated in the Round of 16 at the World Cup. The task does not get any easier this time around as not only is Mexico coming off a heavy defeat at the hands of Sweden in their final group stage game but […]

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/ 2928 days ago

FOX Sports send Derek Rae and Aly Wagner to World Cup in Russia

One of the biggest criticisms about FOX Sports' coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is that the vast majority of announcers and co-commentators were calling games off a monitor from a studio in Los Angeles, over six thousand miles away from the Russian capital. But in positive news, FOX Sports has decided to fly […]

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/ 2929 days ago

Top 5: Goals and Matches from the opening round of World Cup 2018

Top 5 Group Stage Goals of the 2018 World Cup For the opening stages of the World Cup in Russia, we had long range screamers, terrific team goals, free kicks, and game winners galore. Let's just hope the knockout rounds are as exciting. Here are the top 5 goals thus far. 5. Ahmed Musa vs. […]

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/ 2929 days ago

Most-watched soccer games on US TV for June 20-24, 2018

Mexico’s second round victory over Korea drew a combined 11.037 million viewers to FOX and Telemundo, making it the most-watched match of the World Cup thus far. It was also Telemundo’s most-watched match with 6.6 million viewers tuning in to their coverage. Germany’s comeback victory over Sweden surpassed FOX’s previous high for viewership, drawing 5.397 […]

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/ 2929 days ago

World Cup surpasses 1 billion minutes livestreamed via Telemundo

With the vast majority of World Cup games kicking off during office hours in the United States, the tournament has surpassed more than 1 billion minutes livestreamed via Telemundo Deportes' streaming through June 25. To date, the tournament has reached 32 million uniques, generating 73.8 million livestreams, and 1.06 billion total minutes viewed. Streaming across […]

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/ 2929 days ago

Telemundo’s schedule of World Cup commentators for Round of 16 games

Telemundo has announced the lineup of commentators for the Round of 16 games in the World Cup. Beginning with the exciting first day on Saturday featuring France versus Argentina followed by Portugal against Uruguay, Telemundo will have Andrés Cantor and Manuel Sol calling the first game and then Sammy Sadovnik and Eduardo Biscayart on the […]

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/ 2929 days ago

FOX’s schedule of 2018 World Cup commentators

FOX Sports has announced their lineup of commentators for the Round of 16 games in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. John Strong and JP Dellacamera will continue to call games from Russia alongside co-commentators Stuart Holden and Tony Meola, while Derek Rae and Aly Wagner have been flown to Russia to announce their first games […]

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/ 2929 days ago

How the World Cup has made a believer out of this USMNT-centric fan

​After religiously following the last three World Cups, I must admit that even a week before this year’s tournament I couldn’t have been less interested. The United States was out and, apparently, so was I. Honestly, this wasn’t a sentiment I expected, but I also hadn’t expected the US men’s team to be absent. The […]

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/ 2930 days ago

Spain needs to overcome World Cup demons to advance

Spain will take on Russia in Moscow this weekend for a place in the last eight of the World Cup and they will do so as strong favorites. However to progress they will have to overcome one or two demons from an international history that includes a long sequence of harrowing defeats against the host […]