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Friday, December 13, 2002
ABC Sports announces talent for 2002 World Cup
Giorgio Chinaglia, the most prolific goal scorer in North American Soccer League history and Eric Wynalda, the all-time leading scorer for the U.S. National Team will join ABC Sports commentator Terry Gannon in ABC's 2002 FIFA World Cup studio. ABC's soccer team of Jack Edwards and Ty Keough will provide the play-by-play and analysis of the ABC games during the 2002 World Cup from Korea and Japan.
Additionally, Veronica Paysse and Lisa Salters will contribute reports to ABC Sports World Cup coverage.
Giorgio Chinaglia, one of the most recognizable names in the history of soccer, had an eight year career (1976 - 1983) with the New York Cosmos of the NASL. In those eight years, Chinaglia scored 242 goals, leading the NASL in scoring in 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1982. He also had 124 assists in his career, including 37 in 1980. At the same time the Cosmos won NASL championships in 1977, 1978, 1980, and 1982. Chinaglia scored 24 or more goals in 6 straight seasons, with the greatest year being 1980 when he scored 32 goals in 32 games during the regular season then followed it with 18 goals in 7 playoff matches. Chinaglia was a first team NASL All Star in 1976, 1978, 1979,1980, 1981, and 1982 and the league's Most Valuable Player in 1981.
Chinaglia's played seven seasons for Lazio in the Italian Serie A and played for Italy's National Team 14 times, including appearances in the 1974 World Cup. His other international experience includes stints with Massese, Internapoli, and Rome in Italy, after beginning his career with Welsh club Swanton Town in 1964.
Eric Wynalda, a veteran of three World Cups for the U.S. National Team (1990, 1994, 1998), is the all-time leading goal scorer in the history of the National Team with 34 goals, and the youngest player to ever appear for the U.S. in the World Cup when he took the field in Italy in 1990 at the age of 21.
Wynalda, who scored the first-ever goal in Major League Soccer history on April 6, 1996 as a member of San Jose, went on to play for the Miami Fusion, New England Revolution and Chicago Fire, scoring 34 goals and registering 37 assists in 98 career games. Wynalda signed with the A-League's Charleston Battery during the offseason, but is out of action for the 2002 season after suffering a torn right ACL in a preseason exhibition match. It was injury in 1998 that opened the door for his first on-camera stint when he took advantage of the time off the field to do sideline reporting for the San Jose Clash. He has also appeared behind the microphone during broadcasts of the CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament.
Terry Gannon, a veteran broadcaster for the past 15 years, joined ABC Sports in 1991 as an expert commentator for college basketball. Since then his work has spanned an extensive variety of sporting events for the network. Gannon serves as the host of ABC's figure skating coverage, including the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, European Championships and World Championships. He handles play-by-play for college basketball and the network's coverage of college football, a position he's held since 1993, which has included three postseason bowl games. Gannon is also an announcer on ABC's golf coverage of the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour. Additionally, Gannon will serve as the studio host for ABC Sports' coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Gannon was a member of the 1983 North Carolina State University national championship basketball team. During his illustrious four-year career for Jim Valvano's squad (1981-1985), he was a two-time Academic All-America and the school's all-time leading free throw shooter. In 1983, he was the No. 1 three-point shooter in the nation.
Veteran broadcaster Jack Edwards will serve as the play-by-play voice of ABC's World Cup coverage. Currently in his third season as Major League Soccer's lead play-by-play man on ABC and ESPN2, Edwards, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, joined ESPN in July 1991 as a SportsCenter personality where he co-anchored the Saturday and Sunday morning shows until 1999. He currently serves as a play-by-play commentator for a variety of ESPN/ESPN2 events including non-MLS soccer, the Little League World Series, track and field, and select National Hockey Night telecasts on ESPN2. A four-year member of the University of New Hampshire soccer team, Edwards was featured prominently in ESPN's coverage of the 1994 and 1998 FIFA World Cup soccer championships.
Ty Keough, one of soccer's most familiar American personalities, will be the game analyst for ABC Sports' World Cup coverage. Keough is in his seventh year as the lead analyst for MLS matches on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC. He has excelled as a player, coach and broadcaster, as his career highlights in the booth have included working the 1990, '94 and 1998 World Cups. He was the men's coach at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., where he led the Bears to seven NCAA Division III Tournaments in 10 seasons. As a player, Keough was a four-year All-America at St. Louis University (1975-78) and co-captain of the U.S. National Team from 1977-80, which included selection to the 1980 U.S. Olympic and World Cup squads. Professionally, he played four seasons in the North American Soccer League and eight seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He started more than 400 games at the full professional level. His father, Harry, starred on the infamous 1950 U.S. Men's National Team that shocked the world when it defeated England, 1-0, at the World Cup in Brazil.
Veronica Paysse, an innovative and engaging personality, will serve as a reporter on ABC Sports' World Cup broadcasts. Paysse is also the lead sideline reporter on MLS matches on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2. The former Univision talent has covered World Cup France '98, Copa America 2001, the Mexican First Division and Super Bowl XXXIII as an associate producer or reporter for Univision and its parent company, Televisa. As a featured personality on the popular "Republica Deportiva" magazine show on Univision, Paysse interviewed several MLS stars and athletes from across the world's sporting landscape. The former Miss Hispanidad 1998 and Miss Florida USA 2000 runner-up was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and moved to Miami when she was nine years old. Her father, a "fanatic" supporter of Club Nacional, instilled the love and passion for the sport of soccer in her blood, while Veronica credits her Cuban mother with providing an appreciation for baseball.
Lisa Salters, an ESPN correspondent and former ABC News reporter will serve as a reporter on ABC Sports" World Cup broadcasts. Salters joined ESPN as a general assignment reporter in March 2000 from ABC News where she served as a bureau correspondent out of Los Angeles, providing news coverage for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts since the spring of 1997. Salters is based in ESPN's Los Angeles bureau. At ABC News, she covered the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the crash of TWA flight 800. Salters was named the first West Coast correspondent for NewsOne, the ABC affiliate news service, in February 1995.
FIFA WORLD CUP 2002 ON ABC SPORTS:
ABC Sports, the network of soccer, will air nine World Cup 2002 matches (beginning Saturday, June 1), including the live telecast of the title match from Yokohama, Japan, SUNDAY, JUNE 30 (6:30 a.m. ET), with a re-broadcast that same day at 12:30 p.m. ET.
| COMPLETE WORLD CUP TV SCHEDULE |
| June 1 |
3:30 p.m. ET |
Ireland vs. Cameroon |
| June 2 |
3:30 p.m. ET |
England vs. Sweden |
| June 8 |
1 p.m. ET |
Argentina vs. England |
| June 15 |
1 p.m. ET |
Poland vs. United States |
| June 15 |
3:30 p.m. ET |
Round of 16 Match |
| June 16 |
1:30 p.m. ET |
Round of 16 Match |
| June 22 |
1:30 p.m. ET |
Quarterfinal Match |
| June 29 |
1:30 p.m. ET |
Third Place Match |
| June 30 |
6:30 a.m. ET |
Championship Match (LIVE) |
| June 30 |
12:30 p.m. ET |
Championship Match (REPLAY) |
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