FOX Sports Assembles Top-Tier Broadcast Team for COPA AMERICA CENTENARIO
FOX Sports unveils a marquee lineup featuring more than 15 of the nation’s top soccer voices for the network’s unprecedented coverage of the historic 2016 COPA AMERICA CENTENARIO: The Championship of the Americas, the most highly-anticipated soccer event of the year. The group of elite play-by-play announcers, game analysts and studio commentators assembled has more than 30 years combined broadcast and on-field international soccer experience. The announcement was made today by David Neal, FIFA World Cup Executive Producer, FOX Sports.
“COPA AMERICA CENTENARIO promises to be one of the year’s most memorable events in soccer, and we’ve assembled a truly world-class team of commentators to accompany our viewers through this historic tournament,” said Neal.
Following last year’s critically-acclaimed coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015™, FOX Sports once again assembles team of top-tier soccer experts for this summer’s COPA AMERICA CENTENARIO, which is being contested in the United States for the first time in its 100-year history. FOX Sports’ loaded lineup comprises five broadcast teams plus studio coverage originating from the FOX Broadcast Center in Los Angeles.
The tournament kicks off Friday, June 3, from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., as the United States faces Colombia. Play-by-play announcer John Strong calls the action with analyst Brad Friedel and reporter Kyndra De St. Aubin, while Rob Stone hosts pre-match, halftime and post-match commentary alongside Alexi Lalas, Fernando Fiore, Herculez Gomez, Eric Wynalda and Aly Wagner throughout the tournament. Fiore handles a host of duties during the event including nine special editions of COPA TONIGHT, the hour-long tournament-themed news and commentary program, during which he is joined by Lalas and Wagner. Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl serves as reporter at large and Dr. Joe Machnik weighs in as a rules analyst.
FOX Sports televises all 32 matches of what is the biggest, most prestigious men’s soccer tournament hosted on American soil since the 1994 FIFA World Cup, live from 10 nationwide venues from June 3 to June 26. FS1 carries 21 matches of the 2016 COPA AMERICA CENTENARIO, and four more air on the FOX broadcast network. FX, FOX’s widely distributed general entertainment channel, televises two quarterfinal matches and the third-place match, and four group stage games appear on FS2. Every contest is available on recently updated FOX Sports GO and FOX Soccer 2Go mobile apps and on desktop computers via FOXSportsGO.com.
Broadcasting parings for FOX Sports’ coverage of 2016 COPA AMERICA CENTENARIO are listed below:
John Strong & Brad Friedel
JP Dellacamera & Stuart Holden
Justin Kutcher & Cobi Jones
Mark Followill & Cobi Jones
Mark Followill & Herculez Gomez
Reporters
Kyndra De St. Aubin
Jenny Taft
Francisco X. Rivera
Dellacamera, De St. Aubin, Kutcher, Lalas, Machnik, Stone, Strong, Wagner, Wahl and Wynalda return from FOX Sports’ highly-regarded and award-winning coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015™.
