Fox Soccer to Show Games Online? Be Still My Heart

By: Laurie | January 8th, 2008

What would Utopia look like for you? For me, I think it would include having every soccer game in the universe available online. This would keep us from having to rely on low-quality, pirated streams of dubious legality.

You know what I’m talking about. The ones with picture quality so low that when you take the picture to full-screen size, the ball looks square. And the commentary is in Chinese. And the stream is so jerky it looks like robots on the field.

(Oh. Wait. Never mind. That was Peter Crouch.)

Not that I, myself, have ever watched anything illegal. But…um…so I’ve heard.

Well, my dream just came a step closer to reality. Fox Soccer will soon start showing games online.

The new FoxSoccer.tv site will offer on-demand soccer matches from England’s Barclays Premier League, as well as other international competitions to millions of viewers throughout the United States. The new service uses Vividas’ innovative full-screen video streaming technology. The site’s e-commerce back end also offers consumers easy, instant access to their favorite matches.

Fox Soccer Channel Broadband offers up to five soccer matches each week. Users have the option to buy single matches, 10-match packages or season passes giving access to all available games. Prices start at $4.99 per match with a full-season package priced at $49.99.

Five a week isn’t a lot, but it’s a start. I can begin to scratch that one off my Utopia list.

Now to the part where George Clooney serves me frosty drinks with little umbrellas in them as I laze on the beach…

One step at a time.

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• Mike |  January 8th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

  
  
  

  if those games were to include the Serie A, and mainly Roma i would be all over that.

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• Ian |  January 8th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

  
  
  

  I hope it catches on, which I’m sure it will. The old cable model of paying a ridiculous amount for 100 channels you don’t want is on its death bed, and this kind of individual-channel internet subscription makes much more sense. Hopefully it will catch on with other channels too, because Setanta’s online service is still pretty weak and most of the others have none at all. I’m happy to pay to watch more football, but I’d prefer not to pay NewsCorp if I have other options.

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• Laurie |  January 8th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

  
  
  

  Mike, that’s me and Ligue 1. Setanta coverage has gone from “mediocre” to “completely sucking” in the past year.

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• Martha |  January 8th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

  
  
  

  Mike, are you in the US? Seriea.tv is a godsend.

  Posted from United States

  

• Juliet |  January 8th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

  
  
  

  I wish Goltv would do this with Bundesliga matches. Also, if Fox would make the “other international matches” on-demand or recordable, I’d send them $$$ now.

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• Mac |  January 8th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

  
  
  

  It’s a good start, but I still suffer from the fact that being a soccer fan in the U.S. does not go well with not giving a fig about the EPL. Ugh..

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• mele419 |  January 8th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

  
  
  

  Between FSC, GolTV and myp2p.eu I get all my football fill.
  Myp2p2.eu has illegal streams, but they usually have multiple streams for each game, a few in english, chinese, etc, and some of the streams are actually decent quality as well. But my Milan games are usually live on Sundays on FSC at 2:30 EST, and they usually air the ManU games as well, so, I’m happy with that.

  Oh, and Setanta sports BLOWS.

  Posted from United States

  

• Ryan |  January 8th, 2008 at 8:23 pm

  
  
  

  TVUPlayer + GOLTV = Love

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• Mike |  January 8th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

  
  
  

  im in the US martha, but i dont like to pay for a lot of things if i can help it. plus i have a mac and dont know if seriea.tv would work.

  Posted from United States

  

• Sam |  January 8th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

  
  
  

  What about us Canucks? We never get anything!

  Posted from Canada

  

• Melissa |  January 8th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

  
  
  

  Well you DO get universal health care. As for futbol, I dunno.

  Posted from United States

  

• Martha |  January 9th, 2008 at 2:18 am

  
  
  

  It wouldn’t, Mike. How do you watch streams, then? There’s a slight chance I had to go a Windows machine just for that reason …

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• moka |  January 9th, 2008 at 3:47 am

  
  
  

  Sam, on Rogers cable, channel 22 (Sportsnet) shows some EPL matches on weekends, and channel 35 (TLN) shows some Serie A, and CL for Italian teams, usually. Then there’s GolTV which you have to pay for.

  If you read arabic, nadorlive.com can be amazing, especially for CL.

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• Mike |  January 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

  
  
  

  i dont watch streams, thats how. haha

  thats why i need to get XP and load up bootcamp. then i will be a very happy roma fan.

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• Soccer Source |  January 9th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

  
  
  

  yeah five games a week ain’t much. Plus we get EPL already. But what about Bundesliga, Primera, Ligue Un, etc. etc.?

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