Friedbeef’s Tech

It’s that special time again.  Once every four years, the world is gripped by football fever and this time it’s centered around South Africa.  Depending on where you live, this may or may not result in suitable viewing times for live matches, or you may not even have access to these matches without paying exorbitant cable subscription fees.  So to help you out, here are some useful resources to help you watch the World Cup online.

How do download full length World Cup matches online

If you wish to keep a copy of your favorite world cup game, mysoccerplace.net gives you the chance to download the entire game from several curate sources within popular download sites like Rapidshare.

How to watch live streaming World Cup matches

Live streaming of World Cup matches are a difficult proposition.  If you don’t get them via official sources, they can be notoriously unreliable.  Time Soccer offers a useful guide and links to live matches.  However, due to the underground and official nature of these streams, some matches will work, and some may not depending on the source.  My advice would be to use this resource as the very last resort.

How to watch World Cup videos online

There are several easy ways to .  First of all there’s the official FIFA website.  It’s pretty good, and well organized, but the long advertisements within video is irritating.  Also, because this is supposed to be an international site, the videos do not have commentary on them, which can be a bit of a let down when it comes to watching goal highlights.

101 Great Goals is another excellent resource for videos.  Each video stems for a well written football blog entry which gives you an excellent preamble of the video you can then click through to watch.

Other football sites like FootyTube, SoccerClips, and Mighty Football are great video resources as well, providing highlights, goals and other interesting World Cup related videos.

Do you know any other good World Cup video sites?  Share them with us in the comments :)