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  • Seven3Sports bags the digital rights for Bundesliga 2014

    Seven3Sports bags the digital rights for Bundesliga 2014

    NEW DELHI: India’s leading sports company Seven3Sports has bagged the digital rights of the 52nd Season of Bundesliga. The new world champions, Germany, are fast moving towards becoming the new super-power house of Football.

     

    Starting from 22 August 2014, with the best of names from the football world, such as Mario Goetze, Thomas Muller, Aryan Roben, Toni Kroos, Manuel Neur, Bastin Schweinsteiger, Adrian Ramos, Robert Lewandowski and Mats Hummels, are roaring to start the new season of Budesliga. 

     

    After the success of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, that was broadcast by Seven3Sports across five Indian sub-continental and South Asian countries, acquiring digital rights for Bundesliga therefore came as a natural extension of the organisation’s services for the Indian Football fan base.

     

    Seven3Sports CEO and founder Jatin Ahluwalia said, “With inclusion of this undertaking to our portfolio, Seven3Sports is bringing a bouquet of diverse sports to its viewers. We are targeting to go beyond the conventional sports loved in India, introducing new experiences such as French Open in the past and now the Bundesliga. This will be an exciting new venture for us with the ultimate aim to provide live viewership to those who are always on the go.”

     

    Seven3Sports has established itself as a leading Sports Rights Company and has been associated with most of the major sporting events across the globe including French Open, 2014 FIFA World Cup and IPL to name a few. Keeping up with this momentum, through Bundesliga, Seven3Sports aims to bring about a surge in the Football viewership within the country.

     

    Seven3Sports has put together an exciting digital plan to bring Bundesliga closer to over a billion Indians, live on their mobile phones and internet screens. These digital rights cover mobile, internet, app, video on demand, live streaming on digital platform, highlight, audio commentary on mobile and internet besides anything you would like to power on digital platforms.

     

    Seven3Sports will bring about the technological innovation in a first of its sort German football experience packaged together to attract millions of unique users of internet and mobile in India in a never before engagement programme. Neo Sports is the official broadcast partner for the league in India. 

  • Germany prevails as host nation reduced to 7-1

    Germany prevails as host nation reduced to 7-1

    MUMBAI: The most anticipated clash between Brasil and Germany turned out to be the most shocking match. Germany defeated the host nation 7-1 in the semifinal match on Tuesday to earn a berth in the finals.

     

    The Brasilians’ managed to score a single goal in the dying moments which was too late as Germany took the lead with a string of goals in fast succession. In just the first 30 minutes of play, Germany took the lead with five goals including a record-setting 16th from Miroslav Klose.

     

    Doubts prevailed that it would be a tough battle for Brasil as its star striker NeymarJr was injured and captain Thiago Silva was suspended for the semifinals.

     

    The fever in Brasil translated on twitter making it the most-discussed single sports game ever on Twitter. There were a total of 35.6 million tweets about the game during the match window. The most mentioned Brasilian players were Julio Cesar , midfielder Oscar who scored the lone goal and centre forward, Fred. From the German side Miroslav Klose, Toni kroos and Thomas Muller were the top three mentioned players. 

     

    In addition to a goal Klose scored, Toni Kroos scored twice for the Germans in two minutes, and Thomas Mueller and Sami Khedira added the others.

     

    Brasil has not lost an official competitive match on home soil since 1975.

     

    Mueller scored the first goal, one-timing a corner from Kroos past Cesar in the 11th minute. Khedira made it 5-0 in the 29th, taking a pass from Mesut Ozil and again beating Cesar.

     

    Brasil has spent billions of dollars preparing for the tournament, with expectations that home advantage could deliver Brasil a sixth title. The huge spends had also ignited intense anger and protests against the World Cup. With disappointment flowing in, the Brasilians seated at the stadium started to chant against their President  “Hey, Dilma, go get ****ed in the ***!” at about the 40th minute. The chants lasted for about three minutes.