The U.S. Futsal National Team kicks off the 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup against Paraguay today at the Maracanãzinho in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Kickoff for the Group B clash is slated for 10:30 am CT, and the match can be followed live on the MNT Blog or seen live on ESPN360. I'm watching Brazil vs Italy right now.

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A few days ago I ranted about the lack of TV coverage by Sportsnet for the Mexico game. Today I eat crow and recant my rant as they finally announced (via Gerry Dobson's blog), that they will be carrying the game and yes, it will be live. And finally, many of you have been wondering about [...] Click to continue reading...

Just in case I failed to mention it here before, Sportsnet will be streaming tomorrow night's WCQ vs. Honduras from Montreal. As for regular TV coverage, the schedule is the typical convoluted Sportsnet mash of times and delays that requires a PhD in media studies to unravel. The must-win for Canada game will be streamed live on [. Click to continue reading...

Just when you think TV coverage might be geting a bit better for soccer in this country comes the shocker that Sportsnet may not be carrying the Mexico-Canada WCQ on Wednesday from Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiappa. The V's boards are lighting up with responses from Sportsent to their emails reagrding coverage. Click to continue reading...

Gol TV has my favorite soccer announcer, Phil Schoen.

Problem is, it's not that easy to find the channel any more.

It's only on DIRECTV.

And as far as what's only on GolTV - the upcoming 2010 World Cup qualifying matches and exclusive TV coverage of Spain's La Liga. Click to continue reading...

Who knew...actor Gary Oldman shows off his keepy-uppy skills in a promotional video for ITV. Oldman, who has appeared in films such as Batman: The Dark Knight and the Harry Potter movies stars in an ITV promo themed "Good things come in threes" - a reference to the broadcaster's live England, FA Cup and UEFA [. Click to continue reading...

Like every Real Madrid fan, I was looking forward to watch this past weekend the Emirates Cup which took place in England. The tournament was very promising but what was my surprise when I woke up to watch that instead of the Emirates Cup, they had a game with south american teams instead. What a surprise, Goltv was gone, no more great la liga games, no more Real Madrid. Click to continue reading...

Aston Villa begins their Intertoto Cup quest on Saturday and we'll have TV coverage of it here in the U.S. Both matches will be broadcast on Setanta, with the first leg the 19th at 2 p.m. EDT and the second... Click to continue reading...

Based on the fixture changes in the Premier League for TV coverage, here's an early list of matches you'll be able to watch in the U.S. Don't forget our watch party for the first weekend on August 16 at Cricketer's... Click to continue reading...

...Ecuador's LDU Quito won the Copa Libertadores by virtue of a penalty kick shoot-out in Wednesday night's second leg of the finale. The Copa Libertadores, for the uninitiated, is almost certainly the second biggest club competition on the planet. Unfortunately, it doesn't get much coverage outside of South/Latin America. Click to continue reading...

Dunphy, Brady and co. emply the power of heated debate, when TV coverage of Germany's semi final againt Turkey was interrupted by bad weather You know that RTE's pundits could easily keep talking for a whole 90 minutes, if they... Click to continue reading...

Last Friday marked T-60 days to the start of the Champions League. We know the qualifying round and group stage schedules, and we know all but two of the participating teams. We have knowledge of the TV coverage for the competition. However, we don't know the following: The playoff dates -- not results -- for group qualifiers among the Honduran and Guatemalan representatives or the sole Nicaraguan qualifier The rules and regulations governing the tournament The names of any sponsors of the Champions League Prize money to be awarded (admittedly we probably won't know this for a while) CONCACAF has. Click to continue reading...

Yesterday, Matthew Yglesia's political blog took a brief and (as usual) dubious detour into the Americans-don't-like-soccer-why-is-that-oh-yes-they-do-oh-no-they-don't-it's-because-of-the-low-scoring-well-actually-are-other-sports-really-so-different-I-hate-the-diving-I-don't-like-nil-nil-draws-but-actually-nil-nil-draws-can be-quite-compelling-et-cetera-ad-nauseum debate. Click to continue reading...

Chances are you have already pencilled the dates in your diary of when your team plays once season 2008/09 kicks off. No doubt right at this minute you are contemplating all your team's games home and away, who you would like to meet in the FA Cup and Carling Cup competitions and wondering whether or not your team is good enough to reach Wembley in May 2009 in whichever competition. Click to continue reading...