Optus reveals live European soccer streaming on YouTube and Twitter

Tim Burrowes

February 11, 2019 6:04

Telco Optus is to make ten key European soccer games available for free on Twitter and YouTube in the first streaming deal of its type in Australia.

The games, being played at breakfast time in Australia, include this Thursday morning’s clash between Tottenham Hotspur and Dortmund in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League, which will be streaming on the Optus Sport YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7CosGXtW28

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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1 COMMENTS

ausisshite 12 Feb 19

funny how in 2019 you malakes cant call it football, dont see any other country reporting about crappy afl round the globe but here you have 3 football codes( so sad) yet you have to call it soccer still..this country and its media are a joke, same goes for sport teams in australia at a global scale,

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