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Argentina will have free national transmission of 64 World Cup matches
Argentina confirmed on Thursday World Cup nationwide transmission free service both on television and radio. Channel 7, DeporTV and Radio Nacional will be responsible for delivering the service, thus fulfilling President Cristina Fernandez government’s promise of the ”World Cup for the whole country”. Read full article
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Jun 06th, 2014 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0This came through in 30+ tweets last night. CFK was very excited about it.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 10:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of course, it is quite right that everyone should have access to the big sporting events. They just need to keep the power on.
And in the USA the Soccer Association is paying to put it on. I saw my first advertisement for it yesterday. A sports bar was saying they'll have it on.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0One of my friends said “ I hope we lose in the first game so people can stop pretending that someone cares”
@3 LOL! You won't be watching then?
Jun 06th, 2014 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 013 million play association football in the US - the third most played team sport - and almost 25 million watched the last WCF.
It might not be the most popular sport in the US but it is growing in popularity. I know a fair number of friends in the US looking forward to watching the WCFs and they are not South American immigrants.
We all have our preferences. Cricket is my favourite sport but it completely mystifies my US friends. They cannot understand the rules no matter that it closely resembles baseball (a simplified version) or how often I talk them through it. They do enjoy the idea of civilised meal breaks.
It is interesting that the two most popular team sports in the US are very much fringe sports everywhere else in the world. I am sure this has been closely studied.
Without trying to cause a sticky wicket, could someone explain how the Baseball World Series is a World Series?
Jun 06th, 2014 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ Elaine
Jun 06th, 2014 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A number of years ago I recorded a WC game when in the States and worried all day that someone would tell me the result (a la Likely Lads). Of course in the end no-one knew the WC was even on let alone what happened in that particular game.
As for Cricket, that supposedly dodgy Sri Lankan runout earlier in the week is everyday fare in Baseball and adds a bit of spice. Not only do you not have to warn the runner in Baseball you can even pretend to not have the ball - England should try that in the Sri Lankan test series and really get some jeopardy back into the game!
@6 No one said, “I won't tell you the score but there were no goals anyway”?
Jun 06th, 2014 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I really don't like it when the spirit of the game is damaged in this way. Of all the sports crickets has remained a gentleman's game in essence. I have close relatives that played to a very high standard and if anyone had pulled a stunt like that they would have been ostracised by their own dressing room. Senanayake should have warned him in the spirit of the game. That said Buttler was a twit.
I accept a reasonable amount of banter (or sledging) is part of the game now. Cricket is such a mind game and part of that is to use the upper edge of having eleven against two on the field. I have never seen any real animosity carried off the field into the dressing room or pub afterwards. Maybe it has changed as money has seeped into the game.
What is a baseball world serie?
Jun 06th, 2014 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 05. Good question! There are a couple of Canadian baseball teams, so it is international, right?
Jun 06th, 2014 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These are other countries where baseball is popular:
Cuba
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Venezuela
Taiwan
Japan
8. You know darn well what the World Series is! And you know what the Super Bowl is too.
Now you'll show us how much you care about the U.S. and Europe by making extra sure we all know you don't care.
@5
Jun 06th, 2014 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think is is after a newspaper if I remember correctly. So it isn't a “World” series more luck “The Guardian series” if it were in the UK for example.
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Jun 06th, 2014 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0baseball?
some kind of sport for losers and nerds?
Great. The 'losers and nerds' get a chance to earn $3m per year. Spreading the wealth.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Jun 06th, 2014 - 05:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL - Yes exactly Elaine
As for Cricket yes I do like the sporting nature of it and agree with the line from “the Thick of it” that “cricket makes the world feel a nicer place”. That said, a bit of edge sells tickets and Broad not walking in the Ashes livened up that whole series no matter what the rights and wrongs were. Of course I agree with you that it is bad form to run someone out that way but then it is no worse than stealing a 2 yard head start when trying to nick a single. All good fun.
Can you imagine the power surge at half time when the kettle is switched on to boil the water for mate, I think the lights will go out.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bread and circuses, that's all.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 010 Andy Scott the spark (#)
Jun 06th, 2014 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes it was orginally sponsored by “the world” newspaper.
13 Redrow (#)
Broad would have walked if the umpire had put his finger up. Apart from Gilchrist I cannot recall any Convicts walking, although they do ocassionally bowl underarm.
7 ElaineB (#)
Of course this has nothing whatsoever to do with the bowler being reported for a dodgey action.
I'm off to Lord's on Thursady for 4 days. Weather looking set fair, glad I'm in shade.
@9, 10 and 16
Jun 06th, 2014 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for explaining.....it makes sense now
@9
Jun 06th, 2014 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Kind of like the NorthAmians like you and yankeeboy hitting the internet waves every four years proclaiming you don't give a darn about the World Cup (and you are everywhere at the moment, all forums vociferously bruiting how you don't care), which only proves the EXACT CONTRARY, not only do you care, you are jealous that in this tournament that where whole GDP output of Earth is affect for a month, no one gives a rat's ass whether NorthAmians are in it or not. If you are, no one cares, if you aren't no one notices.
Sort of like that, me thinks.
As for the EUians, they play the World Cup as undesired guests you just barged into OUR tournament in the 1930s, the Copa America, to make it a world cup. THey don't matter either since no one in Africa, Asia, or India sits down and says “I'm going to watch Switzerland vs Russia tonight” ... hahahah. Yeah right. THey only care about Brazil and Argentina in the entire planet, that's who the world sits and watches play.
And crickets are for summer evenings to hear from a window. That's the only cricket I've ever heard of.
Kind of like Argentineans continually appearing on these fora proclaiming how much they don't care about a topic and yet still posting comment after comment of their supposedly not caring.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 01:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0“whole GDP output of Earth is affect for a month”
*sigh
“THey don't matter either since no one in Africa, Asia, or India sits down and says “I'm going to watch Switzerland vs Russia tonight” ... hahahah. Yeah right. THey only care about Brazil and Argentina in the entire planet, that's who the world sits and watches play”
Says the guy that has never travelled. Ssshhh don't tell him about the EPL's popularity, he'll pop a rivet.
“And crickets are for summer evenings to hear from a window. That's the only cricket I've ever heard of.”
Brave enough to advertise his ignorance in the end.
Soccer - codified by the British.
World Cup - invented by the Europeans.
And combing those two is about the only thing that Argentina is known for around the world...... according to Nostrils. Kinda sad when it's explained that way.
Even if that were true, which it is not, that's at least one more thing than Australia is known for.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 01:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0So, is Canal 7 a commercial station or is it state run? I would've thought a World Cup in Brazil would be a ratings and advertising bonanza for the commercial channels and the broadcasting arrangements sorted out ages ago.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0@7 Elaine
I didn't watch the match you're referring to, but Cricinfo's story on this subject states that Senanayake did indeed warn Buttler in the previous over. Just my opinion of course but cricket stopped being a 'gentleman's game', in my country at least, in the early seventies. Long before the big money arrived courtesy of World Series Cricket.
There's a difference between banter and sledging in my opinion. I have no problem with the former, which just reflects the competitive nature of the game and the players. The latter, which Steve Waugh memorably described as 'mental disintegration', creates unnecessary bad feeling and damages the game. There's something wrong when there is as much media attention paid to what players said - or didn't say - to each other as the actual play.
@16 Zathras
Returning to the pavilion after the umpire raises his finger isn't walking. It's called a dismissal.
“Even if that were true, which it is not, that's at least one more thing than Australia is known for.”
Jun 07th, 2014 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0*sigh
No one here would ever dare play Pato, a true man's game. Played with knives and mazes, and where shoving you into the path of the running horses is legal.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 03:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's a man's sport. Only played in Argentina.
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Jun 07th, 2014 - 07:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have watched many a game of PATO and can assure you that generally they do not play with knives, maybe in the 1700's they did but certainly not now.Why try and big yourself up when someone somewhere will shoot you down. You Sir are busted. I agree a certain amount of skill is required after all you have to pick the PATO up off the ground while controlling the horse you are riding. Anyway what is a “mazes” if you are unsure of a spelling look it up on Wikipedia.
Nostrils
Jun 07th, 2014 - 08:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0You keep pato and we'll keep Aussie Rules. I know which is bigger out of those two.
The one invented in Melbourne. The one codified before soccer.
So you can keep your pato. For a comparison:
* Aussie Rules is the biggest ball sport in Oz and most professional
* Pato is hardly played by anyone compared to the English game of Soccer
* Animal cruelty has never been part of Aussie Rules
* Pato takes its name from tortured ducks
* Aussie Rules has grassroots leagues in a dozen countries such as PNG, Denmark, Germany, Japan and even Argentina
* Pato is grassroots pretty much even in Argentina and no where else
* The average Aussie Rules annual salary at the elite level is $250,000
* There is no elite level in pato.... just elites who can afford horses (and ducks).
@25 Aussie rules is brutal! :)
Jun 07th, 2014 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0We can be sure TTT has never done anything more dangerous than crossing the road without holding an adult's hand.
@16 I am so jealous! I didn't expect to be in England for the summer as I had a whole schedule of work in SoAm that has been put back to September. I shall be sure to attend some local games between commitments in Europe.
ElaineB
Jun 07th, 2014 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Aussie Rules can indeed be brutal. While soccer players are skilled sportsmen, their skills are much more limited and focussed when you compare them to an Aussie Rules player. Aussie Rules players have to master pretty much everything that makes a soccer player good plus a hell of a lot more.
If you haven't already, then you really need to catch a game at the MCG. It'll blow your mind if you get two Melbourne teams playing and get a good crowd of 70,000 or 80,000 (or 100,000 if you can ever make a final or ANZAC Day match).
Nostrils, who prefers to be so parochial, won't ever experience something like that. Mendoza is his past, present and future.
@27 I will put it on my bucket list. (It is pretty long as I am hoping for quite a few more decades).
Jun 07th, 2014 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0I met a rather famous but retired Aussie rules player when he was coaching cricket in England for a summer (all expenses paid) at an Independent school. He was a real gentleman but what stood out most was his discipline and mental strength. The young men he was coaching had huge respect and affection for him.
TTT is a very confused, very young, man. He constantly harps on about how brutal other countries are and then boasts about Argentina having the most brutal pastimes.
4 ElaineB (#)
Jun 07th, 2014 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We all have our preferences. Cricket is my favourite sport but it completely mystifies my US friends. They cannot understand the rules no matter that it closely resembles baseball (a simplified version) or how often I talk them through it.
What a shame....They were really good at it once upon a time. Had the best players of the day!
Who knows who the first international was between and who won?
#4 Elaine I fully agree it is growing here. Anyone that lives in the USA knows that soccer is a growing sport in the USA. In fact I would call it the next generations sport here. All my nephews and nieces grew up with it, it is a largely played sport in college along with Lacrosse. In April and May and through the summer you cannot go to parks without seeing the peewees ( 5 to 8) in the fields playing soccer. Granted it will not be as popular as gridiron football, but to pretend it is not growing here is putting your head in the sand and ignoring it, or you do not live here.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for the World Cup, you can watch it 24/7 on about 30 sports channels in the USA. Personally I do not see the excitement in it but obviously the world does. Some people like Merlot and some prefer a Cabernet. Big deal....so what, right? My preference has always been my football and hockey, but Goodell is killing the NFL.
MLS is growing, if anyone claims Americans do not like soccer I would find it hard to believe they live here or they must be fracking shale in Wyoming.
So “ PATO” is in spanish duck, so who want's to throw a dead duck around ( assuming of course it is dead) but most certainly will be after a few throws. PMSL
Jun 07th, 2014 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How a 19th-century Scotsman kicked off Brazil’s all consuming love affair with football
Jun 07th, 2014 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0•Charles Miller arrived in Santos, Brazil in 1894 with a football under each arm
•Credited with introducing the country to the sport with footballing 'wizardry'
•120 years later Brazil is preparing to host the World Cup on home soil
•Another Scot, Thomas Donohue, was introducing the game in Rio de Janeiro
•Historians say Miller organised first match under Association Football rules
Charles Miller, the British gentleman who arrived in Brazil in 1894 with a football under each arm and introduced the country to the sport
It is a scene almost impossible to imagine today for reasons Scottish football fans will readily understand.
A Scotsman arrives in a Brazilian port with a football under each arm, attracting quizzical looks from the locals who wonder what the spherical objects are for.
The Scot demonstrates with a flash of his skills on the ball and the Brazilians gape in awe at the wizardry on display.
Today, as Brazilian fans eagerly anticipate their country’s bid for a sixth World Cup win – this time on home soil – there is little any country, far less Scotland, can teach them about football.
But 120 years ago, this is essentially how Brasil discovered the sport.
Much more important news:
Jun 08th, 2014 - 07:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27750996
21 Heisenbergcontext (#)
As for Broad not walking, it was aperfect example of why DRSwas brought it. However the convicts used their TWO reviews on really speculative outs and got both very wrong. The fact they had no reviews left when Broad accepted the umpires decision of NOT OUT was only the convicts own fault.
But of course blame anyone else but themselves.
Back to the article.
Jun 08th, 2014 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0All World Cup games are free to watch on tv in the UK, and as zathras points out above, the next two tournaments will be free to air also.
Christina is making out like this is a big deal and the Argies should be grateful.
In the UK this is normal and expected. No wonder London is filled with happy Argentines.
When free is not really free.
Jun 08th, 2014 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Football For All will be $ 1,410 million in 2014,
The government budgeted for next year an expenditure of $ 1,410 million for the Football For All (FPT). however, this expense could double because the Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina has the power to make more funds available for this program.
@28
Jun 08th, 2014 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They use to televise Aussie Rules football on Sky, I use to quite enjoy watching it.
Been a few years since I saw it last, would not mind watching it again, just about got my head around the rules.
@33 Zathras
Jun 08th, 2014 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...and anytime you need help distinguishing between 'walking' and a dismissal, this particular 'convict' will be happy to provide it.
Something missing in the photograph?
Jun 08th, 2014 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hmm?
Oh I know, the banner!
@35 “Football For All will be $ 1,410 million in 2014” How on earth does it cost that much? All the best players are abroad. Is this just another money laundering vehicle for the government?
Jun 08th, 2014 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@38 realitycheck
Jun 13th, 2014 - 10:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0These games will be a tad difficult to watch with the Malvinas slogans played across the screen for the whole of the matches.
Who opened the can of troll bait?
Jun 13th, 2014 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18 TrollWiththeWeakPunches : “As for the EUians, they play the World Cup as undesired guests you just barged into OUR tournament in the 1930s, the Copa America, to make it a world cup”“”
Jun 14th, 2014 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No one put a gun to the heads of the South American participants of YOUR Copa America in the 1930's, obliging them to join the World Cup....they did so because they wanted to....suck it , dickhead !
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