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FOX Sports: Asian Cup

All 32 games Live and in HD, with a weekly edition of Santo, Sam & Ed’s Asian Cup Fever.

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FOX Sports will feature the AFC Asian Cup from early January, with all 32 games Live and in HD, with a weekly edition of Santo, Sam & Ed’s Asian Cup Fever.

FOX Sports CEO, Patrick Delany, said: “The Asian Cup is without question the biggest football tournament ever staged in Australia and FOX Sports will give it the full ‘World Cup’ treatment – every game Live in HD with no ad breaks during play on a dedicated channel, plus the finest on-air team to bring it all to life.

“Australian football fans were swept up by the Wanderers’ achievements in the Asian Champions League, so we look forward to stepping up to an even bigger stage when Asia’s best national teams come to Australia to take on our Socceroos.”

Our Socceroos, hungry to capture their first ever Asian Cup crown when the tournament kicks off on home soil in January, will take on Kuwait, Oman and Korea in the group stage.

Throughout the tournament’s 18 match days, FOX Sports 505 (FOX Sports 4) will become the ultimate Asian Cup viewing destination with Live, HD and ad-break free match coverage and previews, highlights and analysis delivered by the best on-air team in the business.

The FOX Sports team for the AFC Asian Cup Australia 2015 will be spearheaded by champion Socceroos John Aloisi, Mark Bosnich, Ned Zelic and Robbie Slater, alongside the game’s premier play-by-play commentary duo of Simon Hill and Andy Harper, plus Mark Rudan, Adam Peacock and Tara Rushton.

Joining the FOX Sports team for the tournament will be former Asian Player of The Year and Sydney FC defender Sasa Ognenovski, former Socceroos and South Korea coach Pim Verbeek and former Bahrain coach Anthony Hudson.

Each matchday will feature up to 6 hours of Live coverage, including cutting-edge virtual analysis of each match.

Additionally, Tara Rushton will host a nightly 30-minute highlights package of each day’s action on the Asian Cup Feast and the Total Football team of Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang & Ed Kavalee will move their mayhem to Saturday nights for a weekly dose of Santo, Sam & Ed’s Asian Cup Fever.

• All matches Live in HD, with no ad breaks during play
• Opening match: Australia v Kuwait, Friday 9 January (8pm AEDT kick off)
• Dedicated football channel (FOX Sports 505) and hosting studio
• Nightly 30-minute Asian Cup Feast hosted by Tara Rushton
• Santo, Sam & Ed’s Asian Cup Fever on Saturday nights

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  1. We have the Saudi team living and training in our town (Torquay Vic) at the moment. They ran a training session for the kids in our town today and had a very large crowd

  2. Plenty of talent in Asian football, plenty of storylines too. Japan will look to win a fifth title, adding to the four they have won in the last six; Palestine make their Asian Cup debut after winning the AFC Challenge Cup; Iraq were fairytale winners in 2007, they have a promising young squad; and of course Australia will look to win their first Asian Cup title, on home soil no less.

  3. The Cricket World Cup seems a lot more appealing than this tournament. None of the Asian teams did anything in the last World Cup so this is certainly not the world stage of football.

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