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Fox Sports has announced its lineup of anchors, analysts and in-studio talent for this summer’s FIFA World Cup.
The soccer tournament, which starts adjacent month, has an expanded section compared pinch anterior editions and will beryllium hosted astatine aggregate sites successful North America. The home-field constituent for Fox, positive nan increasing fame of shot successful nan U.S., are expected to adhd potency to its weeks of unrecorded telecasts. Fox Sports will big a media time Thursday successful New York to elaborate connected its sum plans.
The Cup opens June 11 and will tally done July 19 astatine 16 sites successful nan U.S., Canada and Mexico, pinch 48 teams playing 104 full matches. Fox has carried nan past 2 men’s World Cups, successful 2018 and 2022, on pinch women’s World Cups successful 2015, 2019 and 2023.
Brad Zager, Fox Sports president and executive producer, revealed nan talent lineup Wednesday successful a property release.
International figures slated to beryllium workplace analysts connected Fox sum include Thierry Henry (France), Zlatan Ibrahimović (Sweden), Clarence Seedorf (Netherlands), Javier “Chicharito” Hernández (Mexico), John Obi Mikel (Nigeria), Thiago Alcântara (Spain), Juan Pablo Ángel (Colombia) and Peter Schmeichel (Denmark).
U.S. Soccer veterans anchoring Fox Sports’ workplace expert squad including Alexi Lalas, Carli Lloyd, Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan, pinch Donovan besides serving arsenic a lucifer expert connected crippled telecasts.
Fox hosts Rob Stone, Rebecca Lowe, Jules Breach and Pien Meulensteen will anchor on-site and workplace coverage.
Zager said nan on-air squad “features immoderate of nan astir move personalities and shot legends Fox Sports has ever assembled.” He added that nan institution believes “they’re going to instantly link pinch fans and go America’s definitive voices for nan anticipated tournament.”
Studio expert and big assignments will beryllium announced earlier nan tourney begins, Fox said.
