COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil -- FIFA has switched the starting times of seven World
Cup matches, including the U.
Wholesale Jerseys .S.-Portugal game on June
22 in the Amazonian jungle city of Manaus. FIFPro, the international soccer
players union, had pressed FIFA to avoid the earliest kickoffs in the hottest
and most humid weather. After FIFA declined to change the two-year-old schedule,
FIFPro suggested that the governing body "considers the demands of TV companies
of greater importance than the health and safety of the players." The
U.S.-Portugal game initially was set for 3 p.m. local time. Two other games in
Manaus -- England vs. Italy on June 14 and Cameroon vs. Croatia on June 18 --
were moved ahead three hours to 6 p.m. The England-Italy switch means Ivory
Coast vs. Japan will now start at 10 p.m. local time in the tropical coastal
climate of Recife. On June 18, Cameroon-Croatia flips kickoff slots with Spain
vs. Chile, which now starts at 4 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro. That means Spains
appearance at the Maracana Stadium will now start in Spanish prime time instead
of midnight back home. The U.S.-Portugal move forced two other changes. Belgium
vs. Russia will start at 1 p.m. local time in Rio de Janeiro, instead of 7 p.m.,
which would have required European viewers to stay up well beyond midnight.
South Korea vs. Algeria was moved to 4 p.m. local time in the coolest, most
southern World Cup city of Porto Alegre from 1 p.m.
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