As part of its 2010 World Cup coverage and celebrating its thirty year anniversary with its 30 for 30 film series, ESPN debuts on Tuesday a film from Jeff and Michael Zimbalist. [...]
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To help promote its biggest marketing campaign for a single event, the American cable television giant will look to illuminating the sport’s stars to draw in viewers. Here are some of the marquee names that will play throughout ESPN’s 230 hours plus coverage of all 64 matches. [...] For the first time in soccer’s history, its biggest event, the quadrennial World Cup, will be hosted by an African nation as South Africa will be the site of the 32-nation tournament. [...] The first decade of the twenty-first century has come to a close and there have been some outstanding squads from all the team sports. You recently witnessed a dominating run by the New York Yankees who became the only team of the decade to win 100 games and the World Series. [...] The football world gathered in Zurich, Switzerland last Monday for the annual FIFA gala to announce not only the FIFA World Player of the Year, but also the FIFA/FIFPro World XI. With over 50,000 professional footballers from around the world voting for their best starting XI of the last 12 months; there was huge competition for a place in the prestigious team of the year. [...] On Friday in Cape Town, South Africa soccer’s governing body, FIFA created the groupings that will provide the basis for the month-long tournament that begins June 11. *32 Teams *64 Matches *48 matches in the first round *Field gets cut in half with two teams from each group reaching the knockout round. [...] Earlier this week the last qualifying games in a two-year campaign concluded with the 32 teams now set for next summer’s World Cup in South Africa. With the grouping to be conducted December 4th, here are the qualifiers by region: North and Central America and Caribbean: Honduras, Mexico, United States [...] Now playing in theaters throughout America is a story about a British “soccer” coach, but while the backdrop of the mid-seventies football scene in England may be largely unfamiliar to the American audience, this is really a universal look at ego, ambition, power and personality. [...] In what has to rank as the biggest upset in sports since…Calvin Borel rode Mine That Bird to a Kentucky Derby win at 50-1 odds last month, the much-maligned Americans, who looked terrible just a few days ago in a loss to Brazil, stunned all of soccer by defeating the number one team in the world, Spain, 2-0. [...] |
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