Argentina
Stadia

FIFA will release 5,000 tickets for the first knock-out stage of the World Cup that had been reserved for fans of teams including France and South Africa, following the knocking out of those teams in the first round.
Sponsorship & Marketing

England, France and Spain were among the lowest-ranked nations in a survey of public interest in the national team conducted in twelve countries which have qualified for the World Cup.
Events

The MP & Silva agency has agreed a deal with Argentinian football club Boca Juniors to organise and manage a tour of Australasia in July 2010.
Stadia

By Bernardo Domingues, Soccerex Business Daily Match tickets in Argentina are soon to be sold exclusively through bank machines in an attempt to restrict the access of barras bravas – Argentinean hooligans – to stadiums.
Business

Swiss watchmaker Blancpain has signed as the official timing partner of the newest FIA-sanctioned motor-racing series, the GT1 World Championship.
Media

Argentinian sports broadcaster TyC Sports has acquired the television rights in Argentina for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and London 2012 Olympic Games.
Events

Argentina has been invited to join South Africa, New Zealand and Australia in an expanded southern hemisphere rugby union championship from 2012.

Argentina has held talks with leading southern hemisphere nations over the possibility of expanding rugby union’s Tri-Nation series, according to the BBC.
Media

Havas Sports opened a new office in Buenos Aires Argentina headed by Diego Soraires, former commercial director of ISL Puntogol.
Events

Argentina and Chile will host the 2009 Dakar Rally after agreeing a deal with organisers the Amaury Sport Organisation.
Business

The Australian Rugby Union said that Southern Hemisphere rugby’s flagship competitions, the Super 14 and Tri-Nations, could be reinvigorated in quality and financially by the introduction of Argentina.
Business

Santa Monica signed an agreement with various 1st Division teams in Chile and agreed a deal for a controlling share in an Argentine marketing company with rights for the Argentine Football Association and national team.
Business

With more than 2 months to go before the opening of SPORTELMonaco 2006, exhibitors have committed to more than 85% of the expanded floor space in the Grimaldi Forum.
Events

The FC)dC)ration Internationale de l’Automobile approved the calendar for the 2007 World Rally Championship, adding three new races in Ireland, Norway and Portugal. The new races replace those in Australia, Cyprus and Turkey. The FIA said in a statement that its World Motor Sport Council had approved a calendar which would continue to run on the existing January-November format instead of the proposed August-May switch. It said that it would decide whether to add further events to the calendar at its next World Motor Sport Council meeting.
Media

The 2006 World Cup is generating record television audiences for football in the US.Before the quarter-finals US network ABC averaged 3.7 million viewers for each of its 10 matches while cable channels ESPN and ESPN2 averaged 1.8 million and 1.1 million viewers respectively per match and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision averaged 2.2 million viewers per match.
Business

TV audiences for the FIFA World Cup in host country Germany have rocketed by 51 percent on the 2002 event, according to the latest research commissioned by Infront.
Business

Close to four in ten viewers of the global audience for the FIFA World Cup are women, according to soccer world governing body FIFA’s marketing agency Infront.

After all the hype it is finally here – the FIFA World Cup 2006 kicks-off this evening in Germany and is set to smash TV viewing records.