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SOCCER
We are in Australia not Europe
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Fortunately, Soccer is a dated term dying out in this part of the world. Next step is changing the Socceroos name…
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Ah yes, but what I said was right. It is called the “2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup”, and FIFA means “International Federation of Association Football”.
Looks like recent reports are that Australia is going to lose the rights anyway
Sadly, yes.
With Japan pulling out of bidding just days out of the announcement, the seven Asian votes will go to the Trans-Tasman bid. South America (CONMEBOL) will be supporting Colombia’s bid. It will be interesting to see whether the European and African votes will go.
If Australia loses this one, it can forget about bidding for other smaller FIFA tournaments (e.g. Club World Cup and U-20 World Cup) in the future. Australia hosted FIFA World Youth Championship (predecessor to U-20 World Cup) in 1981 and 1993.
Hopefully Australia can teach the World that the name of the sport here is soccer.
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The vote was 22-13. UEFA (Europe) and CONMEBOL (South America) voted for Colombia while the Australia-NZ bid received votes from AFC (Asia), OFC (Oceania), CAF (Africa) and CONCACAF (North and Central America) confederations.
It will be the first time since 2002 World Cup that a FIFA tournament will be held in our timezone, and I reckon it will be hot property for networks here. SBS and Optus Sport, which showed last year’s tournament, will be the favourites, but don’t rule out ABC, Fox Sports or even Nine (which paid millions of dollars for the best 16 matches of the 2002 World Cup, expecting the Socceroos to qualify. What did it get however is a five-city metro audience of 3 million for the final in Yokohama, which remains the most-watched World Cup match in Australian TV history).
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Liverpool has been crowned English Premier League champions after current titleholders Manchester City lost 2-1 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge last night. It is Liverpool’s first top flight title since 1989-1990, and the Reds won it with seven matches to spare.
I think we’ll get a Free to air major broadcaster get the rights. This is way to big to go to a minor broadcaster
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Ummm SBS is not a minor broadcaster. It has covered every FIFA World Cup since 1990, so it has wealth of experience. The proposed match dates for 2023 Women’s World Cup (July 10 to August 23) is in the middle of AFL and NRL seasons, so if Seven or Nine get involved, the matches will probably be bumped to multichannels, which the organisers won’t be happy about.
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This deserves a BIG broadcaster
Seven, Nine or Ten
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Seven has no money. Ten doesn’t want to spend on sport. Nine treat football like shit. ABC won’t want to spend the money unless it’s a Fox simulcast.
SBS it is!
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I am sick of SBS coverage
I can actually seeing one of the big networks put in effort seeing it is a HOME WORLD CUP something that our nation has never seen before
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Why?
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It’s too stale. The presenters are crap
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and thats in your opinion and no one elses on here
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SBS is ad-free in play on an FTA network. Say no more.
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I can’t see anyone other than SBS get the FTA rights. Maybe ABC if more funding is allocated.
7, 9 and 10 will fuck it up.
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