{"id":30799,"date":"2020-08-26T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=30799"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:27:00","slug":"disney-announces-brand-new-line-up-for-mena-sports-fans-to-enjoy-on-espn-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/disney-announces-brand-new-line-up-for-mena-sports-fans-to-enjoy-on-espn-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Announces Brand New Line Up For MENA Sports Fans To Enjoy On ESPN Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East sports fans are now able to access the freshest sports content as streaming service ESPN Player adds award-winning documentaries, live US College sport and extensive studio programming to its line-up.<\/p>\n<p>Available across every country in the Middle East, Africa, Europeand some parts of Asia on desktop, mobile, tablet and Android TV, ESPN Player\u2019s diverse live and on-demand programming includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ESPNFC\u00a0\u2013 Daily global soccer news show, featuring pundits including Steve Nicol, Shaka Hislop, Craig Burley and more; debating the big talking points and hot topics from elite football around the world.<\/li>\n<li>SportsCenter Global\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Regular updates from ESPN\u2019s iconic news brand, bringing viewers the latest sports stories from around the world.<\/li>\n<li>An extensive catalogue of\u00a0ESPN Films sports documentaries, including many from the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning 30For30 series.<\/li>\n<li>Unrivalled coverage of\u00a0NCAA College Football, with more than 800 college football games live and on demand from the beginning of the NCAA campaign to the bowl season and National Championship game.<\/li>\n<li>Over\u00a02,000 top college basketball games. As the\u00a0home of the NCAA Tournament, AKA March Madness &#8211; including the Final Four and the National Championship game \u2013 ESPN Player subscribers will be able to follow the journey from Selection Sunday, when the competing teams are revealed, to the final, includes 67 games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Martin Healy,\u00a0Head of Advertising Sales &amp; Partnerships for The Walt Disney Company Middle East, comments: \u201cAdding ESPN Player to our already popular sports news and information platforms (<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/\">ESPN.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fespncricinfo.com%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CRami.AbuArja%40disney.com%7C4dd61762d9694e10fa7708d849989b07%7C56b731a8a2ac4c32bf6b616810e913c6%7C1%7C0%7C637340267247908744&amp;sdata=Zss72BVnLYOqhCWyzvaA%2BWbShuvKbmXRnBa7bwOuaRo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">ESPNCricinfo.com<\/a> and the ESPN APP), allows us to continue delivering world class sports content to fans across the MENA region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new additions of a daily ESPNFC football show and SportsCentre to the service broadens the appeal of ESPN Player, delivering greater value to a wider fan base than ever before. After observing the global popularity of ESPN&#8217;s 30for30 documentary series \u2013 including the\u00a010-part series \u2018The Last Dance\u2019 &#8211; we also look forward to the reaction of MENA sports fans to the wide breadth and quality of the documentaries available on the service,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Player will offer over 400 documentaries and features, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oscar-winning documentary \u201cOJ: Made In America\u201d, which explores race and celebrity through the life of\u00a0O. J. Simpson<\/li>\n<li>Recently released documentary \u201cLANCE\u201d &#8211; a fascinating, revealing and comprehensive chronicle of one of the most inspirational (and then infamous) athletes of all time,\u00a0from acclaimed director Marina Zenovich<\/li>\n<li>Bao Nguyen\u2019s film \u201cBe Water\u201d &#8211; an intimate and personal look at the life and purpose that motivated Bruce Lee, the martial artist trailblazer and pop culture icon.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRodman: For Better or Worse\u201d the unfettered and definitive look at the life and career of Dennis Rodman, one of basketball\u2019s most controversial and polarizing figures<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJordan Rides The Bus\u201d exploring the motivations that drove the world&#8217;s most competitive athlete to walk away from pro Basketball, having lead the Dream Team to an Olympic gold medal in 1992 and taking the Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship the following year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Available on desktop, tablet, mobile and Android TV, ESPN Player brings live and on-demand sports programming, with subscribers able to access four 24\/7 ESPN channels \u2013 ESPNU, The SEC Network, The ACC Network and The Longhorn Network \u2013 direct from the US. Game previews, original programmes, analysis and predictions will all be available to fans around the clock.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30814\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ESPN-Player-Homepage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ESPN-Player-Homepage.jpg 825w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ESPN-Player-Homepage-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ESPN-Player-Homepage-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ESPN-Player-Homepage-732x485.jpg 732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East sports fans are now able to access the freshest sports content as streaming service ESPN Player adds award-winning documentaries, live US College sport and extensive studio programming to its line-up. Available across every country in the Middle East, Africa, Europeand some parts of Asia on desktop, mobile, tablet and Android TV, ESPN Player\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30815,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30799\/revisions\/30815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}