Fox Sports en Español To Broadcast Champions World Series.
June 14, 2003
Fox Sports World, will bring its viewers live and exclusive coverage of this summer’s most anticipated soccer tour, the Champions World Series. The series kicks off in Seattle on July 22 and features four games involving England’s Manchester United, one of the world’s most highly acclaimed soccer clubs. The seven-game tour will include stops in Cleveland, Foxborough, MA, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., East Rutherford, N.J. and Philadelphia, and showcase numerous top international club teams before they return to their respective leagues for the 2003-2004 season.
Manchester United, winner of the Barclaycard Premiership title in May, will be joined on the tour by Italian clubs AC Milan, the winner of this year’s UEFA Champions League and Italian Cup, and Juventus, also a finalist in the UEFA Champions League. Also joining the tour are Argentine power Boca Juniors, who recently won the prestigious Copa Toyota Libertadores, UEFA Cup finalist Glasgow Celtic from Scotland, Spain’s FC Barcelona and Mexico’s Club America.
Fox Sports World’s sister network, Fox Sports en Español, will offer live broadcasts of the matches in Spanish. The ChampionsWorld Series tour is being distributed outside the U.S. by Fox Sports International and will be transmitted by broadcasters in Latin America, Canada, Japan, Russia, China, the Middle East, Malaysia and Iceland.
“The caliber of championship club teams participating in the ChampionsWorld Series tour establishes this series as the summer’s marquee sporting event,” said David Sternberg, Senior Vice President of Emerging Networks for Fox Cable Networks Group. “We are pleased to offer live coverage of this tremendous summer tour across our U.S. channels, Fox Sports World and Fox Sports en Español, and at the same time show the world how immensely popular soccer has become in the U.S.”
The tour will include more than 80% of the top soccer players in the world based on current rankings by the leading sanctioning bodies, with a minimum of 55 tour players having participated in the 2002 World Cup.
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