Mexico

Latin American pay-TV sports network PSN is to broadcast more than 100 matches from two of the region’s soccer tournaments – the Copa Mercosur and the Copa Merconorte.

South American Football Confederation (CSF) president Nicolas Leoz, whose organisation staged the Copa America at only six days' notice, says his dream is for every country in the Americas to take part in the future.

European sports information provider Infostrada Sports and North American equivalent STATS have formed a strategic content and technology sharing alliance.

Fox Sports World Espanol, the Spanish-language US sports network, will broadcast coverage of this season’s Major League Soccer which runs throughout the summer.

Television distributor Venevision International has been chosen by satellite broadcaster DirecTV to sub-license the rights to the 2002 soccer World Cup in a number of Latin American nations.

Electronics giant Philips has become the fourteenth official partner of the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament in Korea and Japan.

South America's top international soccer tournament, the Copa America, due to be held in Colombia next month, was put on hold until a kidnapped senior Colombian soccer official is freed, a Colombian spokesman said.

FIFA does not plan to intervene over next month's Copa America, world soccer's oldest tournament, which has been put on hold after the kidnapping of a senior Colombian official.

The Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) said it submitted on Thursday what it believes to be a winning bid to host next month's Copa America soccer tournament after South America's federations vetoed Colombia over concerns of kidnapping and violence.

South American football rights and marketing company Traffic is claiming that Brazil will replace Columbia as hosts of the troubled Copa America soccer tournament.

South American soccer rights and marketing company Traffic says it will lose $10million from the postponement of the Copa America tournament, which will now be played next year.

The NFL is planning a pre-season game in Mexico on August 27 when the Dallas Cowboys will meet the Oakland Raiders.

Colombia is engaged in an intense counter offensive to reclaim the Copa America soccer tournament for this month and avoid a major economic disaster.

TV Azteca, Mexico’s second largest broadcaster, has signed a deal with satellite TV platform Sky Mexico to allow the latter to broadcast 22 soccer matches from the country’s top division, to which TV Azteca owns the rights, over the next year.

The Copa America outstripped the Superbowl and World Series amongst American Hispanics according to research out on Sunday.

Argentine cycling is facing a cash crisis with the national cycling federation unable to afford to send a team to the World Cup which gets underway in Mexico on Friday.