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LOS ANGELES — Landon Donovan is teaming with Clint Dempsey once more at a World Cup.
The pair, who share the American document of 57 worldwide targets, will work for Fox at this 12 months’s match in Qatar. Donovan is paired with Ian Darke on one in all 5 play-by-play groups. He joins Dempsey, employed final spring as a studio analyst.
Fox introduced Tuesday that the shifted World Cup opener between Qatar and Ecuador on Nov. 20 at 11 a.m. EST shall be televised on its FS1 cable community. The primary Fox community has the “NFL Kickoff” pregame present at the moment forward of video games that begin at 1 p.m. EST. The primary community had been scheduled to broadcast the unique opener, Senegal vs. Netherlands, at 5 a.m. EST on Nov. 21, however FIFA determined in August to start out a day earlier.
In consequence, the primary Fox community will televise 34 of the 64 matches, one fewer than the unique broadcast schedule introduced in April.
Commentators will name all matches from stadiums in Qatar. 4 years in the past in Russia, Fox known as 33 matches onsite, together with all however one in the course of the knockout rounds.
Donovan and Dempsey starred for the U.S. on the 2006 and 2010 World Cups.
Donovan turned an ESPN studio analyst when he was minimize from the 2014 U.S. World Cup roster by coach Jurgen Klinsmann. Donovan was employed as a coloration commentator for Fox in the course of the 2016 Copa América and a studio analyst in the course of the 2017 and 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cups. He at the moment is supervisor of the second-tier San Diego Loyal.
Darke memorably known as Donovan’s injury-time aim in opposition to Algeria that superior the U.S. to the spherical of 16 on the 2010 World Cup. Darke works for ESPN on a non-exclusive foundation, permitting him to broadcast for Fox throughout this World Cup, and he's BT Sports activities’ lead soccer commentator in Britain.
John Robust and former U.S. midfielder Stu Holden would be the lead crew, as they have been once they known as 17 matches for Fox on the 2018 match.
Jacqui Oatley, a Sky Sports activities broadcaster, will grow to be the primary lady to name play-by-play for a U.S. community at a males’s World Cup. She is paired with former England defender Warren Barton, who labored 10 video games with Mark Followill in 2018.
Derek Rae is paired with former U.S. midfielder Aly Wagner. They known as 10 video games collectively from a Los Angeles studio throughout Fox’s 2018 protection and three on-site in a late change in plans, two spherical of 16 video games and a quarterfinal. Rae is ESPN’s lead Bundesliga commentator.
JP Dellacamera will work with former U.S. ahead Cobi Jones, Dellacamera’s tenth consecutive males’s World Cup on tv or radio to associate with six Girls’s World Cups. 4 years in the past, Dellacamera was joined in Russia by former U.S. goalkeeper Tony Meola for 13 matches.
Fox used six crews 4 years in the past: Glenn Davis and Cobi Jones broadcast seven video games and Jorge Perez-Navarro and Mariano Trujillo labored 4.
Retired referees Mark Clattenburg and Joe Machnik are guidelines analysts.
Alexi Lalas shall be Fox’s lead studio analyst for his second straight World Cup after working for ESPN in that position in the course of the 2006, 2010 and 2014 tournaments.
Dempsey is joined by Carli Lloyd, who scored three targets for the U.S. within the 2015 Girls’s World Cup remaining; former U.S. midfielder Maurice Edu; and former England midfielder Eni Aluko and ahead Kelly Smith. Former NFL vast receiver Chad Johnson is a contributing analyst, Rob Stone hosts his second straight World Cup and Kate Abdo returns as “World Cup Tonight” host. Abdo hosts CBS’ soccer telecasts, joined by Dempsey and Edu.
Reporters embody Jenny Taft, Rodolfo Landeros and Geoff Shreeves. Tom Rinaldi is a reporter and have correspondent.
All matches shall be streamed on the Fox Sports activities app.
Fox shall be televising the second of three World Cups for which it purchased U.S. English-language tv rights. ESPN and ABC had U.S. English-language TV rights from 1994 by way of 2014.
U.S. Spanish-language tv rights are held by NBCUniversal’s Telemundo.