KISSIMMEE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Youth soccer fans, mark your calendars! From December 18 – 22 you’ll be able to watch the world’s best players and U12 soccer teams competing in the inaugural Prospects Cup, a first if its kind international youth tournament. The games will be available LIVE on TV, online and mobile.
UCI Live, the in-house experiential marketing unit of Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), which is producing Prospects Cup, today announced that the tournament will be broadcast LIVE in the United States in Spanish on UDN (Univision Deportes Network), the No. 1 Spanish-language cable sports network, and in English via global sports provider Eleven Sports. Coverage of the tournament on UDN will start each day with “Fútbol Central,” Univision Deportes’ award winning soccer pre-gram show. Additionally, “Contacto Deportivo,” the sports news program that airs nightly on Univision and UDN, will showcase feature stories about the tournament, teams and players. Fans in the U.S. will also be able to watch the action in Spanish on UnivisionDeportes.com and the Univision Deportes app (available for iOS and/or Android).
The 16 national and international teams of boys under age 12 will take the pitch this December, at the world-class ChampionsGate Sports Field Complex at the Omni Orlando Resort in Kissimmee, FL. The U.S. contenders are: FC Dallas (Frisco, TX), Global Premier Soccer (Boston, MA), LA Galaxy (Los Angeles, CA), Orlando City SC (Orlando, FL), Real Jersey FC (Medford, NJ), Sockers FC (Chicago, IL), Tuzos Soccer Club (Phoenix, AZ) and Weston Soccer Club (Miami, FL). The international teams are: AS Roma (Italy), Boca Juniors (Argentina), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Chivas (Mexico), Club América (Mexico), Fluminense FC (Brazil), Manchester City (England) and Real Madrid (Spain).
In partnership with Sportsrocket, Prospects Cup will provide an immersive 360-degree online experience to fans and family members watching from home worldwide. Matches, highlights and exclusive coverage will be available globally in English and Spanish on the ProspectsCup.com and the Prospects Cup Facebook page.
Matches will be also available to watch via the Hangtime app through which fans can watch matches in private "hangs" with other fans from around the world. To keep viewers engaged during halftime, Hangtime powers a game on soccer trivia with the chance to win $1,000. Fans can download Hangtime from http://go.hangtime.co/prospectscup/
“For more than a year, our team has been hard at work organizing what we know will become the premiere global youth soccer tournament, and thanks to our partners at Univision Deportes, Eleven Sports, Sportsrocket and Hangtime, we’ll be able to take the excitement and action from the pitch to fans across the globe,” said Rick Alessandri, executive vice president of Enterprise Development and head of UCI Live.
Viewers can discover tomorrow’s fútbol stars starting Monday, December 18 through Friday, December 22, when one of the 16 teams will be crowned Prospects Cup Champion.
Go to ProspectsCup.com for more about the championship, follow Prospects Cup on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and engage with others across social media by using #ProspectsCup.
Visit corporate.univision.com for more information on UCI, and follow @UCIPRTeam on Twitter and Instagram.
About Univision Communications Inc.
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) is the leading media company serving Hispanic America. The Company, a chief content creator in the U.S., includes Univision Network, one of the top networks in the U.S. regardless of language and the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the country, available in approximately 90% of U.S. Hispanic television households; UniMás, a leading Spanish-language broadcast television network available in approximately 84% of U.S. Hispanic television households; Univision Cable Networks, including Galavisión, the most-watched U.S. Spanish-language entertainment cable network, as well as UDN (Univision Deportes Network), the most-watched U.S. Spanish-language sports cable network, Univision tlnovelas, a 24-hour Spanish-language cable network dedicated to telenovelas, ForoTV, a 24-hour Spanish-language cable network dedicated to international news, and an additional suite of cable offerings - De Película, De Película Clásico, Bandamax, Ritmoson and Telehit; as well as an investment in El Rey Network, a general entertainment English-language cable network; Univision Local Media, which owns and/or operates 61 television stations and 58 radio stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Now, a direct-to-consumer, on demand and live streaming subscription service; Univision.com, the most-visited Spanish-language website among U.S. Hispanics; and Uforia, a music application featuring multimedia music content. The Company also includes the Fusion Media Group (FMG), a division that serves young, diverse audiences. FMG includes news and lifestyle English-language cable network FUSION TV, and a collection of leading digital brands that span a range of categories: technology (Gizmodo), sports (Deadspin), music (TrackRecord), lifestyle (Lifehacker), modern women’s interests (Jezebel), news and politics (Splinter), African American news and culture (The Root), gaming (Kotaku), and car culture (Jalopnik). FMG also includes the Company’s interest in comedy and news satire brands The Onion, Clickhole and The A.V. Club. Headquartered in New York City, UCI has content creation facilities and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States. For more information, please visit corporate.univision.com.
