Impact Soccer

Il semble que le foot français et hollandais font un retour sur Fox Sports world Canada. Voici l'horaire des matchs du week-end:

vendredi 15 août 2003
2:00pm FSWC Roda JC vs. PSV live
8:00pm FSWC A League: Virginia Beach vs. Charleston live

Samedi 16 août 2003
9:28am FSWC B. Dortmund vs. 1860 Munich live
10:00am net Manchester United vs. Bolton Wanderers live
12:30pm net Arsenal vs. Everton same day
2:00pm TV5 Montpellier vs. Lyon live
2:45pm XVu Academica vs. Sporting live (Bell express vu - gratuit ch701)
4:00pm FSWC MLS: San Jose vs. New England live
8:30pm FSWC MLS: Colorado vs. Columbus live

Dimanche 17 août 2003
9:00am FSWC Leeds United vs. Newcastle United live
11:00am FSWC Liverpool vs. Chelsea live
2:15pm XVu Boavista vs. Benfica live (Bell express vu - gratuit ch701)
4:00pm XVu Porto vs. Sporting Braga live (Bell express vu - gratuit ch701)
4:00pm netE/P Valencia vs. Real Madrid live
5:00pm FSWC Wolfsburg vs. Hamburg same day
7:00pm FSWC Lens vs. Marseille same day
11:00pm FSWC River Plate vs. Newells same day

Manchester Manchester Manchester Manchester Manchester Manchester Manchester Manchester Manchester United - there's only one United!!!

Leeds United.

Anonymous a écrit :Leeds United.

Dimanche contre Newcastle.

Full slate of soccer available on TV to Canadian fans this season

NEIL DAVIDSON
Canadian Press


Wednesday, August 13, 2003


(CP) - Once again Canadian fans can look forward to a full menu of soccer as European leagues kick off new seasons.

In fact, they can feast on more TV coverage than fans in England. The English Premier League opens this weekend, with the same slate of TV coverage this season as last: two games Saturday on Rogers Sportsnet and two Sunday on Fox Sports World Canada.

On Saturday, it's defending champion Manchester United versus Bolton (10 a.m. EDT live) and Arsenal versus Everton and Canadian striker Tomasz Radzinski (12:30 p.m. on tape delay) on Sportsnet.

On Sunday, it's two live games: Leeds versus Newcastle (9 a.m. EDT) and Liverpool versus Chelsea (11 a.m. EDT) on Fox Sports World Canada.

Fox Sports World Canada also plans to carry a Monday English match with the possibility of a midweek game if available. There is no Monday match next week.

Compare that coverage to England, where fans will only be able to see Aston Villa-Portsmouth on Saturday and the same games that are available here on Sunday. And one of those is only on pay-per-view.

You can't see any Premier League games on the main English channels: BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Those stations, known as terrestrial television in Britain, only show some Champions League and UEFA Cup games, plus England matches and some FA Cup games.

ITV shows Premier League highlights late on Saturday, repeated Sunday morning. Live games are all on cable Sky TV or pay-per-view.

At Rogers Sportsnet, Gerry Dobson and former Canadian international Craig Forrest will continue to anchor Soccercentral at noon EDT Saturday and there is talk of a midweek show as well.

Sportsnet has carved out a nice niche for its soccer coverage and ratings have risen.

Manchester United and Bolton produced the highest ratings last season, drawing 146,000 the morning of Feb. 22.

While average overall ratings are modest given the Saturday morning timing, the network says its combined audience for both games has grown to 80,000 last season from 52,000 in 2000-01.

Soccercentral's audience averaged 69,000 last season, up from 46,000 in 2000-01.

Those numbers compare to 41,000 for the average Canadian specialty channel for the period 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, according to Sportsnet.

While there has yet to be an official announcement, look for Rogers Sportsnet and WTSN to show the women's World Cup from the U.S. this fall with Sportsnet carrying the Canadian games.

Sportsnet will also air a couple of pre-tournament games: Aug. 31 against Mexico in Edmonton and Sept. 14 against Australia in Kingston, Ont.

TSN, which picks up its coverage from ESPN, will continue its coverage of the Champions League this season, carrying at least one game a week. The network's goal is to carry two games a week.

TSN also plans a weekly one-hour magazine show that will air in advance of the matches and a 30-minute show highlighting last week's Champions League action. Both are from ESPN.

Fox Sports World Canada has had to drop Scottish soccer this season but has added the French league and picked up Dutch action again. There will probably be one French and Dutch game each week, likely shown same day on tape delay.

The specialty digital channel had shown Scottish games on tape delay but was forced to drop it this time because the pay TV rights-holder in the United States was not happy with the 48-hour delay in Canada.

The German season is already under way, with Fox showing a live match Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. ET. The network also airs a Sunday Bundesliga game on tape delay, going live if there are no English games available.

Other Fox soccer properties are games from Argentina and Brazil plus USL and Major League Soccer in North America. Some English FA Cup coverage is again in the works although the UEFA Cup schedule is up in the air.

Fox Sports World Canada is also looking at renewing Spanish coverage, given the interest in La Liga with the arrival of David Beckham in Madrid. The network got good some feedback from its recent coverage of Real Madrid's Asian tour, according to Tom Scott, programming supervisor for Global's specialty networks.

Fox Sports World Canada has no choice when it comes to announcers, bad news for viewers who are all too tired of loud American announcers trying to sound like they work for Brazilian TV.

It's the same with Sportsnet, although it at least offers British announcers. But Sportsnet's Greg Szele notes that the network does not get to pick its games and has no control over announcers giving out the score of the game that is being shown later on tape delay.

Sportsnet also hopes to carry some high-profile one-off games from around Europe this season. One game already announced is Beckham's expected La Liga debut against Valencia on Sunday. Check local listings, as some legs of the network will show the game Monday.

Sportsnet hopes to repeat its coverage of the English First Division playoffs at the end of this season.

Viewers Choice offers some England and FA Cup games on pay-per-view, although the cost is not cheap.

© Copyright 2003 The Canadian Press

nous on a rien du tout a part match 1 et telefoot.....
c'est quoi les conditions pour l'immigration.

Eh oui, vivre à un endroit où l'intérêt pour le foot est faible a un gros avantage : on ne te fait pas payer des sommes exhorbitantes pour en voir à la TV !

Si tu es sérieux pour les démarches, va voir ce site :
http://www.circusnet.info/quebec