FOX Sports Wednesday announced its 25-match broadcast schedule for CONMEBOL Women’s Copa America 2022.

Featuring 10 teams from South America, the ninth edition of the competition opens Friday at 5 p.m. ET with Bolivia vs. Ecuador on FS2 and Colombia vs. Paraguay at 8 p.m. ET on FS1. Defending champion Brazil opens play vs. Argentina on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on FOX Soccer Plus.

Matches throughout the tournament will air live on FS1, FS2 and FOX Soccer Plus culminating with the Women’s Copa America Final on Saturday, July 30.

Matches will take place in Armenia, Bucaramanga and Cali as Colombia hosts the high-stakes tournament that also functions as South American qualification for the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, the 2023 Pan American Games and the 2024 Olympics.

The broadcasters

JP Dellacamera, John Strong and Callum Williams will serve as play-by-play announcers for matches on FS1, while Aly Wagner, Lori Lindsey, Kyndra de St. Aubin and Cat Whitehill provide expert color commentary as match analysts.

Dellacamera is FOX Sports’ lead women’s soccer play-by-play announcer. He is regarded as one of the original voices of U.S. Soccer with a broadcasting career spanning 30 years and brings decades of experience covering a total of 15 World Cups (nine men’s, six women’s) across television and radio.

Strong serves as FOX Sports’ lead soccer play-by-play announcer for men’s competitions and has been a fixture at the network since joining fulltime in 2015. He is the voice of many of the biggest matches FOX Sports has to offer across several properties and will return as lead play-by-play announcer at the World Cup in Qatar later this year.

Williams is the lead English-language commentator for CONMEBOL global broadcasts and works as the lead play-by-play TV announcer for Minnesota United in Major League Soccer.

Wagner is FOX Sports’ lead soccer match analyst for women’s competitions. A two-time Olympic gold medalist and Women’s World Cup veteran, she made U.S. English-language TV history as the first woman to call a men’s World Cup match in 2018. Playing for the U.S. women’s national team from 1999 to 2008, she scored 21 goals and recorded 42 assists in 131 matches.

Lindsey joins FOX Sports’ Women’s Copa America broadcast team as a match analyst after making her network debut last week on FS1’s broadcast of LAFC vs. FC Dallas. Her 13-year playing career highlights included representing the USWNT at the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany and helping Team USA win the 2012 Olympic gold medal in London.

De St. Aubin returns to FOX Sports after serving as an integral member of the network’s broadcast teams at the 2015 and 2019 Women’s World Cups. Since 2017, the former University of Minnesota soccer star has been the lead color analyst for Minnesota United matches.

Whitehill returns to FOX Sports after calling the 2015 World Cup Final on FOX as part of a three-person booth and contributing to the network’s 2019 World Cup coverage as a match analyst. A 10-year veteran defender for the USWNT, she participated in the 2003 and 2007 World Cups and 2004 Olympics.

Click here to view the CONMEBOL Women’s Copa America – Colombia 2022 on FOX Sports broadcast schedule.

 

READER PRAISE: They give ALIVE AND KICKING a thumbs-up

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.