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FIFA offers live online coverage of Women’s World Cup

FIFA will offer live webcasts of all 32 matches of the 2007 Women’s World Cup through FIFA.com TV, a free interactive service from its official website.

“We want to bring the FIFA Women’s World Cup to the world,” said FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter. “Helping us to do this is the coverage from FIFA.com, which includes live match video of every game in many European countries and video highlights available everywhere in the world, all this for free. I’m certain that this will help to satisfy the global passion for this showpiece of women’s football and raise the profile of the game even further.”

Each of the 32 games will be streamed in their entirety in the following European territories: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, FYR Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine.

All matches will be available with English commentary and will be streamed at 400 kbps.