Press release European Softball Federation
All games of the Intercontinental Cup will be produced by Playo.tv, and will be available for the worldwide audience for free at baseballsoftball.tv. Jakub Kopriva and Slavomir Novotny will take care of the live commentary. In addition, all games of the Czech team will be also live on the Czech National Sports TV.
“It’s a very nice concept,“ said Jens Terkelsen, head coach of the Danish National Team, “perfect for the national teams to compete against top countries in non-World Championship years.”
Even the World Champions from New Zealand see a challenge for themselves in this event: “International Softball is always great, regardless of who is involved, but clearly the ICC is a top class event and we feel very lucky to be invited. We hope it creates more opportunities for similar tournaments around the world.“
This tournament is also a great chance for national programs to see where their younger (or less experienced) players are at: “We bring a strong and experienced offensive team that will have to put up some runs and play exceptional defense behind our pitching. We’re bringing in two new pitchers (BJ Hunhoff and Joel Cooley) who haven’t seen the same amount of experience as Tony Mancha, but they will be counted on for us to have success,“ says the head coach Gregg Leather from Team USA
Black Sox have arrived in Prague
“This is the first time we’ve toured into Europe as a team which is very exciting. We’re looking forward to great softball for sure. On the other side, we also take it as an opportunity to learn something about Prague and other factors, that will be important for the World Series 2019,”
“Beauty of the ICC is in that everyone is strong. We believe any team can beat each other on any given day.”
On September 2nd, the World Champion – Black Sox will take on the newly established Team Europe.
Also this exhibition game will be broadcast live for free at baseballsoftbal.tv.