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This Weekend’s Soccer on TV

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Getafe have become giant killers in Spain, and after already making one of the country's two superpowers an early victim in 2012, they have their sights set on the other.

Barcelona, playing without the injured Andres Iniesta and Jordi Alba, will aim to avoid suffering the same fate as Real Madrid did a few weeks ago when squaring off against the Spanish underdog Saturday. Losing at Getafe is nothing new for Barcelona, which fell to them 1-0 in one of two meetings last year.

Elsewhere around the world, Queens Park Rangers and Chelsea clash in West London with the side plot of the personal feud between John Terry and Anton Ferdinand lingering over the matchup; Stoke City's U.S. internationals Geoff Cameron and Maurice Edu get a crack at Premier League champions Manchester City; and Bayern Munich looks to continue its perfect start to the Bundesliga campaign against a Mainz 05 side that is winless after the first two matches of the season. Some of the biggest names in South America square off against each other as well, as the Velez Sarsfield-River Plate clash in Argentina highlights Sunday evening's slate.

In MLS, playoff implications are at stake across the league landscape, as the Kansas City-Houston, Chicago-Montreal, Dallas-Vancouver and New York-Columbus games all carry a great deal of significance for teams in the postseason hunt. The most anticipated MLS match of the weekend, though, takes place in Portland, where the Timbers and Seattle Sounders look to settle the Cascadia Cup on NBC's flagship network.

Here is this weekend's soccer on TV:

THIS WEEKEND'S SOCCER ON TV

FRIDAY

7 p.m. – ESPN3.com – Maryland vs. NC State

7 p.m. – Fox Soccer Channel – Akron vs. St. John's

8:30 p.m. – NBC Sports Network – Sporting Kansas City vs. Houston Dynamo

8:30 p.m. – Univision Deportes – Pachuca vs. Morelia

9:45 p.m. – GOLTV – Universidad de Guadalajara vs. La Piedad

10:30 p.m. – Telemundo – Leon vs. Chivas de Guadalajara

11 p.m. – Univision Deportes/MLS Live/Direct Kick – Los Angeles Galaxy vs. Colorado Rapids

SATURDAY

7:30 a.m. – Fox Soccer Channel – St. Johnstone vs. Celtic

7:40 a.m. – ESPN3.com – Norwich City vs. West Ham

9:30 a.m. – GOLTV – Bayern Munich vs. Mainz 05

10 a.m. – Fox Soccer Channel – Queens Park Rangers vs. Chelsea

10 a.m. – Fox Soccer Plus/FoxSoccer2Go – Manchester United vs. Wigan Athletic

10 a.m. – FoxSoccer2Go – Fulham vs. West Brom

10 a.m. – FoxSoccer2Go – Stoke City vs. Manchester City

10 a.m. – FoxSoccer2Go – Arsenal vs. Southampton

10 a.m. – FoxSoccer2Go – Aston Villa vs. Swansea City

10 a.m. – FoxSoccer2Go – Dundee vs. Motherwell

10 a.m. – beIN Sport 1 – Cardiff City vs. Leeds United

10 a.m. - beIN Sport ñ – Malaga vs. Levante

11 a.m. – Univision Deportes – Troyes vs. Lille

12 p.m. – beIN Sport 1 – Palermo vs. Cagliari

12 p.m. - beIN Sport ñ – Valencia vs. Celta de Vigo

12:30 p.m. – Fox Soccer Channel – Sunderland vs. Liverpool

12:30 p.m. – GOLTV – Greuther Furth vs. Schalke

12:45 p.m. – ESPN3.com – Ajax vs. Rkc Waalwijk

1 p.m. – MLS Live/Direct Kick – Toronto FC vs. Philadelphia Union

2 p.m. – beIN Sport 1/beIN Sport ñ - Getafe vs. Barcelona

2 p.m. – Univision Deportes – Valenciennes vs. Bordeaux

2:30 p.m. – GOLTV – Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayer Leverkusen

2:45 p.m. – ESPN3.com – Feyenoord vs. Pec Zwolle

3:30 p.m. – NBC – Portland Timbers vs. Seattle Sounders

4 p.m. – beIN Sport 1/beIN Sport ñ - Sevilla vs. Real Madrid

5:30 p.m. – Univision – America vs. Santos Laguna

7 p.m. - MLS Live/Direct Kick – New York Red Bulls vs. Columbus Crew

7:30 p.m. - MLS Live/Direct Kick – D.C. United vs. New England Revolution

8 p.m. – Univision Deportes – Tigres vs. Cruz Azul

8:30 p.m. - MLS Live/Direct Kick – Chicago Fire vs. Montreal Impact

8:30 p.m. - MLS Live/Direct Kick – FC Dallas vs. Vancouver Whitecaps

10 p.m. – Univision Deportes 2 – Atlas vs. Queretaro

10:30 p.m. – MLS Live/Direct Kick – Chivas USA vs. San Jose Earthquakes

SUNDAY

8:30 a.m. – ESPN3.com – AZ Alkmaar vs. Roda JC

9 a.m. – beIN Sport 1 – Roma vs. Bologna

9 a.m. - beIN Sport ñ – Genoa vs. Juventus

9 a.m. – Univision Deportes – Stade Rennes vs. Lorient

9:30 a.m. – GOLTV – Freiburg vs. Hoffenheim

10:30 a.m. – Fox Soccer Channel – Reading vs. Tottenham

11 a.m. – beIN Sport 1/Univision Deportes – Lyon vs. Ajaccio

11:30 a.m. – GOLTV – Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Hamburg

1 p.m. – Univision – Pumas vs. San Luis

1 p.m. – ESPN3.com – Duke vs. Miami (women)

1 p.m. – ESPN3.com – Wake Forest vs. Florida State (women)

1:30 p.m. – GOLTV – Neza vs. Necaxa

2 p.m. – ESPNU/ESPN3.com – Missouri vs. South Carolina (women)

2 p.m. – ESPN3.com – Alabama vs. LSU (women)

2:40 p.m. – beIN Sport 1/beIN Sport ñ - Torino vs. Inter Milan

3:30 p.m. – GOLTV – Cruzeiro vs. Vasco de Gama

5:30 p.m. – GOLTV – Flamengo vs. Gremio

7 p.m. – Univision Deportes – Atlante vs. Tijuana

7:30 p.m. – GOLTV – Velez Sarsfield vs. River Plate

Comments

  1. MLS signed the agreement with Galavision. Then the Univision family launched Univision Deportes in mid-season. It’s starting to roll out, I just got it about a week ago on Cablevision. But games that MLS thought would be on Galavision, but are actually on UDN, are available on MLS live and Direct Kick. A little late for last night’s game, but for future reference.

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  2. Soccer is the best sport on this planet. It is exciting to view and playing it is so great. If you are a new comer to this particular sport, mastering soccer terms is the greatest way to certainly enjoy and appreciate the game far more. As you grow accustomed to the terms, you will soon be hooked much more with the game and ride the emotions experienced by million of its supporters.

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  3. It is terrible how soccer is getting hard to watch on TV thanks to all these new money grabbing channels that no one gets like Fox Soccer Plus and BEIN.

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  4. Being Liverpool: Sunday 6PM on Fox Soccer Channel. Hate the team. Love the behind the scenes concept. Can’t wait.

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  5. Tonight’s Galaxy/Rapids match will not be on Direct Kick. It’s only on the obscure Univision Deportes network that’s not even an available option from most cable and satellite providers or on Altitude if you live in the Colorado broadcast market. MLS should not have signed an exclusive broadcast agreement for a channel nobody can watch.

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