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  • AXN goes on a ‘Road Trip’ this football season

    AXN goes on a ‘Road Trip’ this football season

    MUMBAI: In a bid to broaden its programming range the action oriented AXN has announced a new programming band Road Trip. This basically celebrates major sporting and entertainment spectacles.

    The initiative will kick off with a four part series on the football World Cup which kicks off on Friday in Germany. The show airs every Friday at 9 pm.

    AXN Road Trip: Fifa World Cup 2006 will offer viewers a chance to get an inside glimpse of the global phenomenon that is the World Cup and all of the off-the-charts events and activities planned in and around the host cities.

    The show’s host Neil Cole travels across Germany in search of the stories, the people, the places that make this the epic center stage of the world’s favorite sport this summer. The stakes are high as teams representing 32 countries vie for the World cup.

    The show will travel across Germany to highlight all 12 host cities and will feature segments on the players and interviews with fans. It will also include qualifying moments from teams like Brazil, Germany, the Czech Republic, England and Argentina.

    AXN will give viewers the chance to get up, close and personal with some of the sports great’s from around the globe. The show will have insight’s from veterans such as Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer, Brazil’s Pele, Argentina’s Diego Maradona, Italy’s Roberto Baggio, Holland’s Marco Van Basten, and Korea’s Cha Bum Keun will prepare viewers for what is to come, while reflecting on some of the greatest moments the World Cup has ever seen.

  • DHL rides on Fifa fever with its own World Cup

    DHL rides on Fifa fever with its own World Cup

    MUMBAI: In keeping with the soccer fever with the Fifa World Cup just days away, DHL is all set to launch an international soccer tournament in Germany from 16 to 19 June.

    This tournament, organized by Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN), DHL’s parent company, will be held in Bispinger Heide, near Hamburg, Germany. It will consist of 2,500 DPWN staff and 24 teams from around the world – all competing to be crowned as DPWN World Champions.

    DPWN has operations in more than 220 countries and territories and the tournament will feature teams from regions from around the globe. The 24 final-round teams are from Europe, Americas, Asia Pacific, emerging market countries, as well as host country Germany.

    Employees ranging from board members to couriers were selected from all DHL business units – Express, Global Forwarding, Exel Supply Chain and Global Mail.

    The primary goal of this event is to make an emotional contribution to strengthening the feeling of unity within the group. “We strongly believe that the most prized asset in our organisation is our employees. This event is an excellent opportunity to bring our people together in the spirit of camaraderie and teamwork – a key element of DHL’s success stories worldwide,” said DHL Express – Asia Pacific CEO Scott Price.

    “This is also an excellent opportunity for our representatives in different countries to get to know each other better, fostering goodwill through an exciting tournament,” he added.

    Besides the five football squads who will be participating from Asia Pacific, there will also be five cheerleading teams from this region who will conduct their own competition parallel to the soccer tournament.

    FIFA Organising Committee president Franz Beckenbauer will have a special message for participants at the opening ceremony of the competition. The kick-off event will be moderated by René Hiepen, a sports reporter with Germany’s public ZDF television network and member of the ZDF team of moderators for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

    Highlights of the program include the live appearance of Elli, winner of the TV show Germany Seeks a Superstar and the voice of the current DPWN group song, as well as “Band on the Run,” a brass band made up of DHL Norway employees, and soccer artist “Jacek,” a DHL staff with mesmerizing ball skills. Long-time FIFA referee Walter Eschweiler will officiate at the group championship game on 18 June.