NEW YORK Telemundo Communications Group has reached an agreement with Grupo Televisa that gives the U.S. Hispanic network broadcast rights to televise the home soccer games of six top Mexico soccer teams in the U.S.
Under the deal, Telemundo also will broadcast the designated teams' playoffs, semifinals and finals of the Mexican National Championship (subject to teams' qualifying for post-season play, effective Sept. 29 through Dec. 31, per a statement.
Telemundo will broadcast the...
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By Robert Wagman
SoccerTimes
-- Major League Soccer hopes to announce the awarding of a 16th franchise next month and it appears clear the choice will either be Philadelphia or St. Louis.
MLS played with 13 teams in 2007, an odd number which left at least one team idle each weekend. San Jose will rejoin the league in 2008 and even though the team will be called the Earthquakes, it will be an expansion franchise owned by a group headed by investor-operators Lew Wolff and John Fishe...
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Earnings: $33 million
Sport: Soccer
Nationality: British
Born: May 2, 1975
Becks invaded America this year greeted by much fanfare, but injuries kept him off the pitch for most of the MLS season. The bulk of Beckham's income is derived from sponsors like Adidas (other-otc: ADDDY.PK - news - people ), Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ).
9. (tie) Ronaldinho
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