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Tracking Your Favorite World Cup Team In Springfield MO

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Drummers play in front of the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg

Drummers play in front of the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg

I’ve already posted about the best place to watch World Cup soccer in Springfield. How about those days when you can’t get to a TV but you want to be able to keep up-to-date live? Especially since I think it’s going to be very difficult to avoid hearing scores before you get home hoping for a delayed screening without knowing the result. There are too many douchebags out there chasing web traffic thinking they are offering a great ‘live’ service by sharing scores on Facebook, Twitter and their websites. So, here are ways to track the games the way you’d like:

Live streaming via the internet: Check out ESPN3.com for high quality video

Mobile live streaming: Haven’t tried this one yet and don’t anticipate it due to lack of service for my iPhone locally but ESPN has mobile TV and you can determine your options based upon wireless provider (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T) AT&T customers have exclusive rights to all of ESPN’s English language mobile World Cup broadcasts. You need to download MobiTV or AT&T mobile TV, and pay the $10 monthly service charge. This will give you access to ESPN Mobile TV. The only problem is that as I noted, AT&T doesn’t offer the service in our region. So it’s a better option for the road warrior than someone locally.

Mobile/Internet via Twitter: This is the best and the worst option sometimes. I live blog High School games because I’m usually the only one there and there is no delayed viewing option. However, I’ve discovered I needed to unsubscribe to most of the soccer feeds I follow because for US games and MLS games, there are several folks all offering the same info and it overwhelms my feed. So if you are using Twitter, I suggest you set up a LIST or better yet, follow the list I set up for World Soccer. You can do this from your client or over the internet. If work has blocked ESPN, you can use this option on your PC or your phone. If you use Twitter, what other folks/feeds are you following related to World Cup 2010?

By the way, there is another advantage to using Twitter – anytime I write an article, it is automatically sent to Twitter providing the title and a link to the story. What a great way to stay up-to-date on the world’s game as its played in Southwest Missouri!

Mobile/Internet vs Match Tracker – the US will provide live reporting via their Match Tracker link

For delayed viewing, ESPN Classic will re-air all 64 matches. Each matchday, between 5 – 11 p.m. the network will present all the matches played earlier that day. Doesn’t do customers of Mediacom much since we don’t get that channel but ESPN and ESPN2 will air the best match of the day on select nights. With only three matches a day maximum, that could work out OK.

Tournament Soccer – Another Simple Tool For Your Use

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Folks, I’m working with the Ozark Tigers and Nixa Eagles on their weekend tournament, the Christian County Men’s Soccer Tournament. In an effort to make the updating and publishing of the Tournament results more effective (and easier), I’ve created a simple spreadsheet that can be edited by several people and automatically published.

Here’s the weekend schedule

If you would like to use this format for your upcoming tournament, please let me know and we can get you set up as well, including the publishing. Those who look close will see that Google is providing the hosting, using their Google Doc’s spreadsheet capability which includes collaboration and publishing.

And if you’d like a free service that can provide updates to users via phone SMS (or text messages) consider using Twitter.com, the service I use on my website to provide Live Reports. If you’d like to see how it works, sign up personally (it’s free, other than your texting costs) and then “Follow SGFsoccer” and see what I mean.

It’s a service that KSPR and KY3 are beginning to use now, so they’ve joined the new millenium. How about your Soccer Booster Club? Contact me for free advice!