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Live and Exclusive Spanish-Language Coverage of the 2008 Copa Santander Libertadores Returns to Fox Sports En Espanol
LOS ANGELES-(Business Wire)-January 29, 2008 - Returning once again to Fox Sports en Espanol, live and exclusive Spanish-language coverage of the 2008 edition of the Copa Santander Libertadores kicks off today at 4:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. PT with a first-round encounter between Argentina's Club Arsenal and Venezuela's Mineros de Guavana. The 138 matches over a five-month span will culminate in the two-leg final on June 26 and July 2.
Including renowned Mexican powers Club America, Chivas Guadalajara and Atlas, this year's Copa Santander Libertadores - Latin America's premier annual club soccer competition - features 38 clubs from Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, battling for Latin America's most prestigious club soccer championship. All matches will be telecast live in Spanish and exclusively on Fox Sports en Espanol.
Raul Orvananos will be the lead commentator for all matches involving the Mexican teams; additional commentators will be announced at a later date.
Round of 16 matches will take place from April 30 through May 14; quarterfinals May 21-28; and semifinals June 4-11.
For a complete schedule of Fox Sports en Espanol's exclusive telecasts of the Copa Santander Libertadores, please visit the network's Web site at foxsportsla.msn.com.
About Fox Sports en Espanol
Fox Sports en Espanol features more than 1,500 hours of live, exclusive sports programming in Spanish and, with few exceptions, English SAP each year, including InterLiga(TM), the Copa Santander Libertadores, Copa Nissan Sudamericana, CONCACAF Copa de Campeones, and the FIFA Club World Cup soccer tournaments; the Major League Baseball regular season, divisional playoffs, All-Star Game and World Series; and premier combat sports including championship boxing from Mexico and the U.S, Ultimate Fighting Championship(R) and kickboxing. The channel reaches more than 13 million cable and satellite households in the country, of which 4.5 million are U.S. Hispanic households.
Fox Sports en Espanol is distributed by Fox Cable Networks Group and operated by Fox Pan American Sports LLC, an international sports programming and production entity jointly owned by HM Capital Partners, LLC and News Corporation's (NYSE:NWS) Fox Sports International. For more information, visit Fox Sports en Espanol online at foxsportsla.msn.com.
