Fox Sports En Espanol to Offer Live Broadcasts of Historic Copa Nissan Sudamericana Matches Featuring Mexican Teams.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Fox Sports en Espanol: --Pumas de la UNAM Take on The Strongest, September 20 at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 ET; Club America Battles Atletico Nacional, September 21 at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 ET --Matches Mark Mexican Teams' First-Ever Appearance in Prestigious Tournament Fox Sports en Espanol announced today it will offer exclusive live broadcasts of two historic Copa Nissan Sudamericana matches this week. Marking the first-ever appearance of teams from Mexico in the prestigious tournament, Los Pumas de la UNAM will face off against Bolivia's The Strongest, Tuesday, September 20, starting at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 ET. On Wednesday, September 21, Club America will take on Colombia's Atletico Nacional, starting at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 ET. "The Copa Nissan Sudamericana is one of the soccer world's premier international club tournaments," said David Sternberg, executive vice president and general manager of Fox Sports en Espanol. "We anticipate that the addition of Pumas and Club America to the field will score big among our viewers and further bolster the popularity of the Copa Nissan Sudamericana, particularly among Mexican soccer fans, who make up the majority of the U.S. Spanish-language television viewing audience. We're excited to be the only network in the nation to offer live action from this prestigious tournament." Preceded by a pre-game show A pre-game show or pregame show is a TV presentation that occurs immediately before the live broadcast of a major sporting event. Contents may include:
Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi . The teams will face each other again in the return leg October 5 in Bolivia. Wednesday's match featuring Club America and Atletico Nacional will be broadcast live from the Los Angeles Coliseum. Wednesday's first-leg match marks the first time in history that a Mexican team will compete in an official South American tournament on U.S. soil. Fox Sports en Espanol's Luis Rodriguez Luis Rodriguez or Luis Rodríguez can refer to different people:
A CONMEBOL-sanctioned tournament, the 2005 Copa Nissan Sudamericana features 34 teams from 12 countries, including 31 teams from CONMEBOL CONMEBOL Confederacion Sudamericana de Futbol member countries and 3 from CONCACAF CONCACAF Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Soccer) CONCACAF Confederacion Norte, Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol Asociacion (Spanish) . Participating clubs hail from Brazil (8), Argentina (7); Mexico (2); Bolivia (2); Chile (2); Colombia (2); Ecuador (2); Peru (2); Paraguay (2); Uruguay (2); Venezuela (2); and United States (1). Offering more than 1,500 hours of live sports programming a year, Fox Sports en Espanol is the only Spanish-language network to offer exclusive coverage of the four major international club tournaments from Latin America, encompassing more than 125 matches and in excess of 500 hours of live coverage of the most important matches from the Torneo InterLiga, Copa Toyota Libertadores, CONCACAF Copa de Campeones, and the Copa Nissan Sudamericana. For a complete schedule of Fox Sports en Espanol's exclusive telecasts of the Copa Nissan Sudamericana, please visit the network's website at fse.yahoo.com. About Fox Sports en Espanol Fox Sports en Espanol features more than 1,500 hours of live, exclusive sports programming in Spanish and, with few exceptions, English SAP each year, including the Copa Toyota Libertadores, Copa Nissan Sudamericana and InterLiga soccer tournaments; the Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. playoffs, All-Star Game and World Series; and Championship boxing from Mexico and the U.S. The channel reaches more than 7 million cable and satellite households in the U.S. Fox Sports en Espanol is distributed by Fox Cable Networks Group and operated by Fox Pan American Sports LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , an international sports programming and production entity jointly owned by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and News Corporation's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) ) Fox Sports International Fox Sports International is an international sports programming and production entity housed within the Fox Networks Group, one of the major operating units within Fox Entertainment Group and News Corporation. . For more information, visit Fox Sports en Espanol online at fse.yahoo.com. |
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