BT Sport announces Portuguese football coverage and signs up Paul Scholes
The broadcaster has also signed up Manchester United and England legend Paul Scholes to become a pundit for BT Sport.
Scholes will join the panel of analysts for exclusively live matches in the Barclays Premier League from the start of this season. He will also work as a pundit covering European football next season, when BT Sport begins to screen both the Champions League and Europa League.
He amassed an incredible array of silverware in a career spent entirely at Old Trafford, making 718 appearances and scoring 155 goals. He won the Premier League 11 times, the Champions League twice, the FA Cup three times, Football League Cup twice and FA Community Shield five times, as well as racking up a total of 66 England caps.
'Big Three'
The Portuguese rights include exclusively live home and away matches played by the league’s ‘Big Three’ teams, current league champions Benfica, Porto FC and Sporting Lisbon. The channels will also have the rights to show the eagerly-awaited ‘O Classico’ matches between Benfica and Porto.
BT Sport will kick off the new Premier League season with live coverage of Louis van Gaal’s first league game as the new Manchester United manager on the opening day of the new season on 16 August.
