{"id":413066,"date":"2022-12-09T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=413066"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:01:36","slug":"fox-sports-us-world-cup-coverage-is-a-disaster-fans-are-sick-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/fox-sports-us-world-cup-coverage-is-a-disaster-fans-are-sick-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Sports\u2019 US World Cup Coverage Is A Disaster, Fans Are Sick Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fox Sports\u2019 US World Cup Coverage Is A Disaster, Fans Are Sick Of It<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\">FIFA<\/a> World Cup! is a competition marked by intense emotion, spectacular goals, heroic upsets, and magnificent exhibitions of athletic bravery and prowess. Or, if you&#8217;re watching it in the US: four weeks of shouting, nonstop advertising, confusing channel changes so that the college football game could be shown, and segments where Alexi Lalas gives motivational speeches for the US team that no one on the US team will ever listen to; a demonstration of Clint Dempsey&#8217;s ongoing effort to arrange vowels and consonants into an order that resembles words; a month-long celebration of the festival that is Lando.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nigerianscamsss\/status\/1594355653526814724?s=20&#038;t=l3VeELPEPzetWBtif6NcGQnbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who has truly insisted on the distinction between the capital of a small oil state on the Gulf and a fermented south Indian pancake since Stone referred to Doha as a &#8220;Dosa&#8221; before the first game? The US host English-language broadcaster of this World Cup has provided a feast of gaffes, idiocy, and unsurmountable on-air awkwardness for American viewers to savour. However, they soon disappeared from Fox&#8217;s coverage for the following three days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">when Fox throws it to Alexi Lalas at halftime <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FLQbsG12MF\">pic.twitter.com\/FLQbsG12MF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Kindly Cowpoke (@sillydingdong) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sillydingdong\/status\/1598368385238466560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Fox&#8217;s Corniche set, it&#8217;s become common knowledge that foreign names of stadiums, athletes, and other things are mispronounced. Lalas roared, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how they say it in the King&#8217;s English but dose a seero my friends to the USA,&#8221; helpfully indicating that he doesn&#8217;t know how to pronounce &#8220;dos a cero&#8221; in the King&#8217;s Spanish either, when asked to make a prediction before the US match against England.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">unfortunately every four years alexi lalas reminds me of his existence and it ruins everything <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GjBlTcDUgw\">pic.twitter.com\/GjBlTcDUgw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Clara (@colormeloverly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colormeloverly\/status\/1600254311576977410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That is not to suggest that there weren&#8217;t any positive aspects. Eni Aluko, Kelly Smith, and Maurice Edu, all former England internationals, have been calming voices on the airwaves. As slick as they come, Kate Abdo. Ian Darke is who he is.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kf9cIZcEJsg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those who have watched games in the US, it has nonetheless been a marathon and not a sprint. There have been unnecessary parts, the &#8220;it&#8217;s called soccer&#8221; schtick, and silly plots (Harry Kane as an NFL kicker, really?).<\/p>\n<p>Here are some internet responses to Fox&#8217;s coverage of the 2022 World Cup so far:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Idk how people watch this insufferable pregame and not understand why people refuse to root for this US team.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; nah. \ud83c\uddfb\ud83c\udde8 (@FEELZ_____) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FEELZ_____\/status\/1596211677519024133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">American nationalism is already for dweebs but then you put it through a sport where they have an inferiority complex, you get shit like Lalas being a prominent personality and \u201cI believe that we will win\u201d as a chant<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zito (@_Zeets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Zeets\/status\/1597949566296690688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Petition to have Alexi Lalas eliminated from the World Cup, too.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Unusual Efforts (@UnusualEfforts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnusualEfforts\/status\/1597664728318627840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColYou\/status\/1599485781160390656?s=20&#038;t=4RWelRiBKUun-4Uo61BwPgnbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Landon Donovan say something interesting challenge<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thomas Hindle (@Tom_Hindle_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tom_Hindle_\/status\/1600164373204733952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kyrie-irving-hides-nikes-trademark-post-severing-of-their-deal\/\">Kyrie Irving Hides Nike\u2019s Trademark Post Severing Of Their Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports\u2019 US World Cup Coverage Is A Disaster, Fans Are Sick Of It FIFA World Cup! is a competition marked by intense emotion, spectacular goals, heroic upsets, and magnificent exhibitions of athletic bravery and prowess. Or, if you&#8217;re watching it in the US: four weeks of shouting, nonstop advertising, confusing channel changes so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":413067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3603],"tags":[3729,3809,4053],"class_list":["post-413066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer","tag-2022-qatar-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2022","tag-fox-sports-us-world-cup-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}