How To Watch World Cup Matches Online Free

Local Websites:

ESPN 3 (USA + CDN Only) stands out as the on-line streaming edition with the favorite sports network inside the U.S.A. The forthcoming live streaming timetable consists of the kick-off starting on June 10th, the actual opening ceremonies on June 11th followed by the FIFA World Cup matches. Based on the New York Times, ESPN 3 is going to be streaming all 64 games.

ESPN Mobile TV will be streaming the kick-off, opening ceremonies and 56 world cup matches including semifinals and final to Sprint customers on the new HTC EVO smartphone, according to MarketWatch.

CBC Sports (Canada Only) is Canada’s national public broadcaster. The CBC Sports website states “Between June 11th and July 11th 2010 watch every game streamed LIVE on CBCSports.ca”.

Optus (AUS only) is the #2 Australian telecommunications carrier and will be live streaming 2010 World Cup matches for free to customers with compatible 3G mobile devices.

TVU Networks (World Wide) is a live streaming Internet TV platform and, according to Ask MetaFilter, should be carrying the 2010 World Cup.

BBC Sport (UK + France Only) states that “All BBC matches will be available to watch live online in high quality video” according to this article, which also contains a schedule of which matches are on the BBC and which will be on iTV.

iTV (UK) is the biggest commercial television network in the UK. According to their FIFA World Cup Live description they will have select content from all 64 games, and be broadcasting live any matches that iTV carries.

P2P Video Streaming Option (world wide):

For those of you who don’t want to watch it in your browser, who don’t live in one of the countries that can access the above website then you you can use Sopcast (P2P video) basically users around the world stream their TV channels for you.

My Mirror (better speed): Download SopCast Here

Official Mirrors: Download From Sopcast.com

Step by step set up:

Download and install Sopcast.

Step 1 – Check on” Login as anonymous” and “Auto login” so that Sopcast will automatic log in future.

Step 2- Go to “Live Channels” and Click on any channel you wish to watch. Sopcast will start to buffer.

Step 3 – Some channels may not be shown in the list, you can copy and paste it to the address bar to start the show.

Sopcast on Linux:

http://download.sopcast.org/download/sp-sc.tgz

Please read the Readme file in this package, about the usage and library dependency.

If you need the stdc++5 library, download it here:

http://download.sopcast.org/download/libstdcpp5.tgz

Note: No need to download the libstdcpp5.tgz if you can run sp-sc.

Information and Schedules:

Firefox footie plugin

FootieFox for FireFox: This plugin is one stop shop for all your FIFA World Cup 2010 Live Score information. The plugin is designed to show information based on Groups A-H and Round of 16 through the Final on July 11th.

The following screenshot give you a pretty good idea of all the information you have access to using this plugin.