Int'l Friendlies - World Cup squads warm-up matches

socceraction,

I checked out your listing of friendlies and loved it. I noticed new information on several of the matches. I hope you don't mind me ennumerating the changes/additions (bold and underlined) for your use on the listings:

May 26 Russia – Slovakia k.o. 11:00 am espn3 and ESPN Deportes


May 30 England – Peru k.o. 3:00 pm Fox Sports 2


May 30 Spain – Boliva k.o. 4 :00 pm espn3 and ESPN Deportes


May 30 Bosnia-Ivory Coast ko 8:30 pm


May 31 Portugal-Greece k.o. 2:30 pm espn3 and ESPN Deportes


June 1 Germany- Cameroon k.o. 2:30 pm espn3


June 1 France-Paraguay k.o. 3pm espn3


June 1 Honduras-Israel ko. 9:00 pm


June 4 Netherlands-Wales k.o. 2:30 pm espn3 and ESPN Deportes


June 4 England-Ecuador k.o 3:00 pm beIN


June 4 El Salvador – Ivory Coast k.o 9:00 pm


June 6 Russia-Morocco k.o 10:00 am espn3 / delayed ESPN Deportes 12:00 pm


June 6 Germany-Armenia k.o 2:45 pm espn3


June 6 Greece-Bolivia k.o. 8:00 pm


June 7 Spain-El Salvador k.o. 4:00 pm (DH with MLS – DC Utd v. Columbus 6:30 pm)


June 7 England-Honduras k.o 4:45 pm beIN


Sources are TV listings, watchESPN, ESPN international programming grid, and, or the Road to Brazil domesticly-based matches ticket and arena sites

 

During halftime of the La Liga relegation telecast this afternoon, beIN listed 18 matches, including those "Road to Brazil" matches being played in the US, that they will be showing. The date and matchups only were shown, no additional details or times were given. Those matches listed were:

Wed, May 28 - Denmark v. Sweden
Thu, May 29 - Turkey v. Honduras
Fri, May 30 - Uruguay v. Northern Ireland
Fri, May 30 - Bosnia v. Ivory Coast
Sat, May 31- Norway v. Russia
Sat, May 31 - Italy v. Ireland
Sun, June 1 - Honduras v. Israel
Mon, June 2 - Japan v. Costa Rica
Tue, June 3- Greece v. Nigeria
Wed, June 4- England v. Ecuador
Wed, June 4- Uruguay v. Slovenia
Wed, June 4- Argentina v. Trinidad and Tobago
Thu, June 5 - Ivory Coast v. El Salvador
Thu, June 5 - Chile v. Northern Ireland
Fri, June 6 - Japan v. Zambia
Sat, June 7 - England v. Honduras
Sat, June 7 - Greece v. Bolivia
Sat, June 7 - Spain v. El Salvador

(Interesting that beIN even got the Uruguay home friendlies being played in Montevideo...those would have surely been on GOLTV in the past)

 

Here are a couple of new ones....

May 26 - 4:00 pm Serbia v. Jamaica Red Bull Arena (Harriaon, NJ) PPV - $24.95/34.99 (HD)
May 31 - 8:00 pm Serbia v. Panama Toyota Park (Bridgeview, IL) PPV - $24.95/34.99 (HD)

Some other notes:
June 3 match Greece v. Nigeria in Chester, PA has a 7:00 pm kickoff
When Spain-El Salvador was made part of DH with DC MLS match, it was moved from June 6 to June 7 at 4pm
May 27 France v. Norway will be carried by TV5Monde

 

Paying $25 to see a soccer game on tv is so last century. Speaking about it, who is going to pay that money to watch non world cup teams with their B lineups? I would love to see how much money ppv earns on those games. It may not cover transmission costs.

 

I guess this should be no surprise, but already I notice changes in scheduling.

beIN Sports Play has updated its schedule through May 30th, and while Bosnia-Ivory Coast is listed for beIN, a unpreviously announced match, Chile v. Egypt is listed for the Spanish channel, although at a kick off time considerable earlier than the announced time. And not listed at all is a match announced by beIN just this past weekend, Uruguay v. Northern Ireland. (Chile-Egypt will be seen on delay on beIN at 11 pm)

 

One dollar plus transmission costs.

 

GOLTV will also show a match that does involve a World Cup side on Wed, May 28 - 3:00 pm Nigeria v. Scotland (from London) as well as another one that does not- Fri, May 30 - 2:30 pm Austria v. Iceland


Speaking of May 30th, those watching England v. Peru can avoid the dreaded ticker by watching the match on Fox Deportes, who is also carrying the match instead of Fox Sports 2

 

Still no word on Colombia's matches in Argentina?

 

New listing...Sat 10 am Croatia v. Mali will be carried live by GOLTV.

Meanwhile, games advertised so far have been more absent than shown. Monday's Russia-Slovakia match make it onto ESPN Deportes, but both the English and Spanish streams were not carried. And today's France-Norway match, listed to be on Univision Deportes on the Univision Futbol horarios site (but never added to UDep TV listings) was not on either.

This past weekend, beIN's pre-WC friendly package was raised from 18 to 22, but they only showed a few highlisghts, a good idea since the Uruguay - Nrthern Ireland match was originally announced for Friday, and is absent as Chile-Egypt was added, apparently instead.

 

One more thing, when beIN figured out the correct time of Friday's Chile-Egypt match was 8:30 pm EDT, and not 7 pm, they revised their schedule on both channels:

beIN:
8:25 pm Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. Côte d'Ivoire (Live)
10:30 pm Chile vs. Egypt (SDD)

beIN-ñ
8:25 pm Chile vs. Egypt (Live)
10:30 pm Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. Côte d'Ivoire (SDD)

I am hoping that beIN will fix their Sports Play site, which currently returns a blank screen, in order to see any changes to their streaming schedule (e.g. the possibility of stream-only matches being added due to scheduling conflicts).

 

Did that France-Norway match actually air on Univision Deportes? I didn't see it on the on-screen guide on DTV, and didn't mess with a manual recording.

 

A couple of posts back, I explained that it was NOT on.....there seems to always be confusion regarding broadcast rights with the internationals. However Univision's horarios futbol site still has that match listed:

Hoy, Martes, 27 de Mayo
EventoHoraEquipos¿Donde Lo Veo?Ver Más
Amistoso Internacional

02:30 PM ET
Francia

vs.

Noruega



Univision Deportes

Match Center

Amistoso Internacional

09:00 PM ET
Estados Unidos

vs.

Azerbayán



Univision Deportes



POR UNIVISIONDEPORTES.COM

Match Cente

 

so Panama vs Serbia is on PPV? yes, time to gather the boys in front the TV. what about Panama vs Brazil on June 3rd, will it be broadcast here in USA?

 

Thanks Socceraction.
And according to this site Colombia's match against Jordan will be on BEIN Español.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thegoalkeeper/TV-schedule-for-pre-World-Cup-friendlies.html

 

Thank you Sir!!

 

A couple of kick off time adjustments plus additions (for beIN-1 only...I do not have the spanish channel updates as of now)

Saturday's Norway v. Russia, which is live on Sports Play, will be seen on delay t 11:30 am on beIN (delay due to telecast of that never-ending bike race)

Sat: Columbia-Senegal k.o. is at 5 pm

Sun: Honduras-Israel k.o. is at 9 pm

Tue, June 3 - Brazil v. Panama will be shown on beIN k.o. is 3pm

Wed, June 4 - beIN lists three games live for this day: 3p: England-Ecuador, 6p: Argentina-Trinidad, 9p: El Salvador v. Ivory Coast (the k.o. or th middle game is in question...I think beIN might be wrong on this one, but that is how it is currently scheduled on TV)

Chile-Northern Ireland is scheduled on one-day-delay for Thu, June 5 at 6:30 pm (why is it not on at 11 pm on Wed?). I expect it can be seen live either on the Spanish station or definitely on Sports Play, bu have not seen listings as of yet)

Uruguay-Slovenia, like Uruguay's previous friendly has apparently disappeared from the beIN schedule.

Fri, Jun 6- Brazil v. Serbia is on beIN at 3 pm ko (+Greece-Bolivia at 8p)

 

Correction ...despite beIN TV listings to the contrary, Honduras-Israel is 8pm ko. and is backed up by their Sports Play listings.

beIN finally completed posting its Sport Play listings and Chile v. Northern Ireland will be live on Wed --they list ko as 7pm Argentina v. Trinidad & Tobago is listed as 6 pm ko. While I have seen different times for these matches, I have also found listings that match these times and realize that these friendlies times are changed with regularity and I will go with the beIN times. That is probably why they are taking so long to post their listings despite less matches to contend with as opposed to when the domestic leagues are in action.

Zambia v. Japan will also be carried live on beIN Sportsplay Fri, June 6 with a 7:30 pm ko

Sorry, sa, hope I am not driving you crazy with al these changes

 

Congratulations...nevertheless, my last couple of posts were confusing....here is a more organized list of what I have through next Friday....

Fri, May 30


2:30 pm Austria v. Iceland GOL [nonWC]

3:00 pm England v. Peru FoxSp2/FoxD

4:00 pm Spain v. Bolivia ESPN3/ESPND

8:30 pm Bosnia v. Ivory Coast beIN/UDep (beIN-ñ at 10:30p)

8:30 pm Chile v. Egypt beIN-ñ (beIN at 10:30p)


Sat, May 31

10:00 am Norway v. Russia beINSP (beIN/beIN-ñ at 11:30 am)

10:00 am Croatia v. Mali GOL

2:30 pm Portugal v. Greece ESPN3/ESPND

2:30 pm Netherlands v. Ghana ESPN3 (ESPND at 7:00 pm)

2:45 pm Italy v. Ireland beIN/beIN-ñ

3:00 pm Mexico v. Ecuador ESPNews/Udep/Univision

5:00 pm Columbia v. Senegal beIN/beIN-ñ

8:00 pm Serbia v. Panama PPV [nonWC]


Sun, June 1

2:00 pm USA v. Turkey ESPN2/ESPN3/ Univision

2:30 pm Germany v. Cameroon ESPN3/Udep

3:00 pm France v. Paraguay ESPN3/Galavison

9:00 pm Honduras v. Israel beIN/beIN-ñ/ Udep


Mon, June 2

9:00 pm Japan v. Costa Rica beIN/beIN-ñ


Tue, June 3

3:00 pm Brazil v. Panama beIN/beIN-ñ

7:00 pm Greece v. Nigeria beIN/beIN-ñ

9:30 pm Mexico v. Bosnia ESPN2/UniMás


Wed, June 4

2:30 pm Netherlands v. Wales ESPN3/ESPND

3:00 pm England v. Ecuador beIN/beIN-ñ

6:00 pm Argentina v. Trinidad beIN/beIN-ñ

7:00 pm Chile v. No. Ireland beINSP (beIN – Thur at 6:30 pm)

9:00 pm Ivory Coast v. El Salvador beIN/beIN-ñ


Fri, June 6

10:00 am Russia v. Morocco ESPN3/ESPND

2:45 pm Armenia v. Germany ESPN3

3:00 pm Brazil v. Serbia beIN/beIN-ñ

7:00 pm Columbia v. Jordan beIN-ñ (beIN at 11:00 pm)

7:30 pm Japan v. Zambia beINSP

8:00 pm Greece v. Bosnia beIN (beIN-ñ at 10:00 pm)

8:30 pm Mexico v. Portugal ESPN2/UniMás

 

beIN has the game in Spanish and Univision Deportes also has the rights to show it in Spanish?

 

According to my tv guide on fios, no France v Paraguay on Sunday but they are showing the Toulon final.