PRESS RELEASE Have Your Say on the World Cup with the BBC See the match then chat
The referee has booked your favourite player, your team has lost a crucial match and a star player has shaved off his famous locks. Let off steam with World Cup Have Your Say, the BBC radio and online forum giving football fans across the world an opportunity to have a global rant on the FIFA World Cup everyday from Friday, 9 June to Sunday, 9 July at 08.00 to 08.30 GMT. World Cup Have Your Say will be the worlds hub for football fans. It will give supporters across the globe opportunities to share their opinions on everything ranging from offside decisions and goal celebrations, team selections and refereeing to the best players and bad haircuts. The occasional big name will pop up to give their personal view on the tournament and listeners itching to speak to them can send an SMS text message to: +44 77 86 20 60 80, telephone: +44 20 70 83 72 72, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit the online site bbcnews.com/worldhaveyoursay where visitors can also listen live. The BBC will also provide daily, international coverage of the World Cup in 33 languages including Burmese Chinese - English for Africa and the Caribbean French Hausa Hindi Portuguese Spanish - Swahili and Vietnamese: BBC Burmese will have a panel discussion with special guests at four key stages throughout the tournament in its Dawn Programme which broadcasts every Monday at 00.00 GMT. BBC Burmese presenter Thuyein Kyaw Zaw will be joined by former and current footballers and a football mad celebrity to preview and analyse all the teams before the tournament begins, before the quarter final matches, before the semi-final matches and before the final of the World Cup. Dawn Programme will also profile each team in the eight qualifying groups and give a special prize of a radio to the listener who correctly predicts the teams reaching the semi-finals and finals of the World Cup. Further information can be found online at bbcburmese.com BBC Chinese sports producers Qingrong He and Sun Chen will bring daily reports and stories from Germany - inside and outside the venues. Their reports will be heard on SW and in daily news bulletins to be broadcast through BBC partner stations Tianjin Binhai Radio, Dalian Radio, Qingdao Radio and Nanjing Radio. They will also be interviewed daily by BBC partner stations Chongqing Radio in Sichuan Province, Guangdong Radio in Guangzhou and Shanghai Sports Radio which will also run a joint World Cup quiz with BBC Chinese. The top prize is a trip to London which includes a city tour and tickets to a Premiership football match. BBC Chinese interactive programme Have Your Say is the place for football fans to discuss the magic of the games while visitors to bbcchina.com.cn can access special reports, pictures and audio from the tournament. The BBC's flagship English for Africa sports programme Fast Track will have dedicated reporters in Germany bringing the latest news, exclusive features and player profiles on all five African teams participating in the World Cup: Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo and Tunisia. Their reports, starting Friday, 9th June will feature online at www.bbc.co.uk/africanfootball BBC Caribbean correspondent in Port of Spain, Tony Fraser, will follow the progress of the team from the smallest country to ever qualify for the World Cup, Trinidad and Tobago, in a weekly column at bbccaribbean.com Meanwhile, in Germany football mad Trinidadian Franka Philip will bring the stories from fans or Trini posse who have travelled from the Caribbean and across the globe to support their team in her own weekly column. Visitors to bbccaribbean.com can also access features and team profiles. Also reporting in English will be reporters Rebecca Kesby and Piers Wisbey who will tour the World Cup venues in a camper van. Listeners, unable to get to Germany, can live the experience through Rebecca and Piers as they navigate their way to matches and camp out with fans, bringing their stories to a global audience. They will also speak to the critics and the beleaguered locals. Their travels and travails will feature in all major news programmes and in a blog to be updated everyday at bbcnews.com/worldhaveyoursay BBC Afrique sports reporter Emmanuel Coste will be in Germany bringing special reports and interviews with key players from the Ivory Coast and Togo teams. He will keep French speaking listeners up to date with the latest news and share stories and emotions from fans on the football roller-coaster as they watch their teams battle it out against the best in the world. Emmanuel will be supported by BBC Afrique staff back home in London who will ensure every angle of the tournament is covered from the first kick to when the Jules Rimet trophy is lifted by the winning team. BBC Afrique will also bring coverage everyday in programmes Matin at 06.00 GMT, Midi at 12.00 GMT, World Cup Magazine at 12.30 GMT, Soir at 18.00 GMT and in Sport Weekend broadcast every Saturday at 18.30 GMT. Football fans can also enjoy features, profiles and pictures on all qualifying teams taking part in the tournament online at bbcafrique.com/mondial Tournament followers can have their thoughts and opinions read out on air throughout the tournament by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by leaving a message via telephone in London: 00 44 20 75 57 27 85, Abidjan: 00 225 20 22 82 82 and Yaoundé: 00 237 223 91 64. BBC Brasil journalists Diego Toledo, Eric Camara and Marcelo Crescenti will be in Germany everyday from the start of the tournament bringing the action, stories and interviews from fans and the Brazilian team. Their reports will also feature online at bbcbrasil.com BBC Hausa sports producers Ahmed Abba Abdullahi and Mohammed Ahmed will bring daily coverage of the tournament with special focus on teams from Ghana, Togo and the Ivory Coast. They will quench the thirst of all football lovers with up-to- the-minute reports, analysis and interviews. In Ghana, reporter Iddi Ali will stand shoulder to shoulder with fans in Accra, bringing the emotion and passion as they watch their team play. Reporter Shehu Saulawa will be in the other football hot-spot in Africa, Nigeria. They may not be in the tournament but they are passionate football lovers and Shehu will bring their opinions on the games. BBC Hindi reporter Manak Gupta is travelling to Germany to bring special reports on all 32 teams and their fans. BBC Hindi World Cup reports will be heard for six weeks on India's main national broadcaster All India Radio's Gold 106.4 FM and Rajdhani 666 MW. These reports will also be relayed by All India Radios 65 other major stations at 07.05 local time starting 31 May until 10 July. Mumbai based partner station GO 92.5 FM will also carry BBC Hini'di's coverage of the tournament. Manaks reports will be available in text and audio online at bbchindi.com and bbcnews.com BBC Spanish American service radio and online programme BBC Mundo will have sport producers Vladimir Hernandez and Hector Riazuelo in Germany to bring special reports on air and online on the six Latin American teams taking part, including Spain. Its flagship programme BBC Mundo HOY is sending presenter Luis Fernando Restrepo to broadcast directly from the opening matches and the final. The Services programme BBC Deportes, which broadcasts three times daily, will provide a 10 minute round-up at the end of each day. Listeners can also expect to hear daily reports and stories, throughout the tournament, looking at the other side of the World Cup. Special features, team profiles and audio of its programmes are available online at bbcmundo.com BBC Swahili sports commentator Juma Nkamia will be in Germany bringing special daily reports from the heart of Berlin. Juma will also visit other stadiums hosting matches throughout the month long championship to bring back stories from the fans. His reports will be heard in BBC Swahilis flagship morning programme Amka na BBC which broadcasts for half an hour at 03.00 GMT (06.00 EAT and 05.00 CAT) and for another half hour at 04.00 GMT (07.00 EAT and 06.00 CAT). Daily updates and analysis will also be broadcast in BBC Swahili programmes Dira ya Dunia at 15.30 GMT (18.30 EAT and 17.30 CAT) and Leo Africa at 17.45 GMT (20.45 EAT and 19.45.00 CAT). Further information can be found online at bbcswahili.com BBC Vietnamese reporter Hong Thanh will be in Germany for a week bringing the excitement of the games for reports on air and online. Listeners can also expect daily bulletins rounding up each match as well as stories from around the tournament. bbcvietnamese.com is hosting an online special where football fans can talk about anything to do with the World Cup or football in general such as match fixing and bribery which is said to be affecting Vietnameses national team, and why are millions of young Vietnamese, including women, appearing to love European and Brazilian teams more than their own? Visitors can also find out about the teams taking part in the tournament, read features on young football talents and enter competitions. For further information on BBC World Service World Cup coverage please visit: www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/worldservice Ends For further information please contact: Christine George, Assistant International Publicist, BBC World Service +44(0)207557 1142; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note for Editors BBC World Service is an international radio and online broadcaster delivering programmes and services in 33 languages. It uses multiple platforms to reach 163 million listeners globally, including SW, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable channels. It has around 2,000 partner radio stations which take BBC content, and numerous partnerships supplying content to mobile phones. Its international online sites, which include audio and visual content and offer users opportunities to interact directly with world events, receive 500 million page impressions, attracting 33 million unique users a month. ++++++++++++++ Jaisakthivel, Chennai. 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