Soccer
Soccer, as the game is known in the US and Canada, is known elsewhere as English football, Spanish fútbol, Portuguese futebol, Romainian fotbal, French le football, Quebec le soccer, Russian Футбол, Turkish futbol, German Fußball, Norwegian and Swedish fotball, Danish fodbold , Dutch voetbal, Finnish jalkapallo, Greek podosfero (ποδόσφαιρο), Arabic kurat al qadam, Hebrew kaduregel, Polish futbol (and pilka nozna), Hungarian futball (also labdarúgás and foci), Italy calcio, Japan sakka; (サッカー) or futtoboru (フットボール), Chinese 足球 (Hanyu Pinyin: zúqiú, Cantonese: juk kau) or Thai football (ฟุตปอล) to name a few variations.
Whatever you call it, Soccer is the most popular sport worldwide and Satellite TV has it covered! Whether your interest is college soccer or the MLS, English or Spanish, it's all here.
MLS Direct Kick
The Pennant Races begin here! Catch up to 35 regular-season, out-of-market Soccer games each week. Pricing information for MLS DIRECT KICK™ is not available at this time. Please check back closer to the start of the season.
Dish Network®
MLS DIRECT KICK provides up to 120 regular season games plus select playoff games. You won't miss any of the heart-pounding action of Major League Soccer. Please check back next season for up-to-date pricing, packaging and ordering information.
English Premier League Football
Get the rest of the 2005-06 season of Barclays English Premier League for $179 in 2 payments of $89.50 each. That's a savings of $120 off the regular-season price.
Dish Network®
Catch all of the exciting action of Britain’s best soccer league. Barclays Premiership includes elite teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal, and Chelsea.
Prices:- Full Season Package: $299.00
- Individual Weekends: $29.95
Schedules:- Saturday games air LIVE at 10:00 AM ET.
- Sunday games at 11:00 AM ET
Check out the EPL on Yahoo! UK & Ireland
World Cup 2006
ESPN World Cup SoccerESPN, Inc. has announced that all 64 matches of World Cup 2006 will air in the US LIVE in high definition on either ABC HD, ESPN HD, or ESPN2 HD. ESPN, Inc. has an agreement with Soccer United Marketing (SUM), the television arm of Major League Soccer (MLS), which holds the US English-language TV rights to World Cup 2006. Both DIRECTV and Dish Network carry these ESPN channels and the local ABC channels are becoming available in most markets.Dish Network® - Pay Per View
DISH On Demand Pay-Per-View brings you the most exciting World Cup qualifying games. Don't miss any of the action as top national teams fight for a chance to go to Germany in 2006.Check out the World Cup on Yahoo! UEFA Euro 2006
DIRECTV® - Pay-Per-View
Dish Network® - Pay-Per-View
Pay-Per-View brings you the European Championship! Purchase the All-inclusive Package and get all games of this prestigious tournament. Some games are also available on Dish's WorldSport HD
Check out UEFA EURO 2006 on Yahoo!UK & Ireland
Spanish Primera Liga on Dish Network®
EchoStar Communications and Cablevision's Rainbow Media have announced the relaunch of WorldSport HD on February 1. DISH Network subscribers will need to upgrade to a new MPEG4 satellite receiver in order to receive WorldSport HD as part of the Voom HD Networks package. WorldSport HD has exclusive US TV rights to one Spanish Primera Division match each week, as well as a first choice UEFA Cup game on each match day through the semifinals.
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