ESPN Radio will present exclusive, live national coverage of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final between the USA and Japan on Sunday, July 17. Coverage of the game, played in Frankfurt, Germany, will begin at 2:30 p.m. ET.
Sunday’s game will mark the first time ESPN Radio has broadcast a FIFA Women’s World Cup game. The network presented live coverage of all 64 games of the 2010 FIFA Men’s World Cup from South Africa.
“In our ongoing effort to ‘Serve the Fan,’ we are adding the Women’s World Cup Final to our Sunday line up,” said Traug Keller, ESPN Senior Vice President, Production, Business Divisions. “Now, ESPN listeners, wherever they are, can cheer for the U.S. Women’s National Team on ESPN stations across the country, streaming on ESPNRadio.com and the ESPN Radio mobile application and on Sirius/XM channel 84.”
Tommy Smyth, who contributed to ESPN Radio’s 2010 World Cup coverage, will serve as analyst for Sunday’s action. Smyth, who joined ESPN in February 1993 and has called more than 2,500 international matches from leagues all over the world for ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN International, served as a game and studio analyst during ESPN’s UEFA European Football Championship 2008 (Euro 08) coverage, and has worked four FIFA World Cups (1998, 2002, ’06 and ‘10).
ESPN Radio’s halftime, pre- and post-game coverage Sunday, hosted by Kevin Winter, will feature news, analysis and interviews from the championship of what is recognized as the world’s largest single-sport team event for women.
Contested every four years, this is the sixth FIFA Women’s World Cup competition. The inaugural competition debuted in China (1991), 61 years after the first men’s (FIFA World Cup) tournament in 1930. The United States and defending champion Germany are two-time winners of the championship. Norway has one title.
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