In a one-two punch today, XM has announced an exclusive agreement to be the satellite radio broadcaster for The FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 Soccer. This, coupled with their new partnership with Andres Cantor, allows XM to have play-by-play coverage of all 64 the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 Soccer tournament matches, including team selection and qualifying matches, in both English and Spanish.

The World Cup tournament will be on the new 24-hour Spanish-language channel just announced, though at this time I have no clue which channel that will be.

XM Satellite Radio, in partnership with the sports announcer Andres Cantor, is launching a Spanish-language sports network. While both XM and SIRIUS already have Spanish-language channels, this move shows more of an initiative to appeal to the hispanic audience.

The channel is expected to air in July and will feature coverage of soccer as well as other Latino sports including baseball and boxing.

Andres Cantor, known by his trademark "Go-o-o-al!" when a soccer team scores, is also the head honcho of Futbol de Primera, the biggest syndicator of soccer programming for Spanish-language radio.

So yeah, we know about the XM deal with the Yankees (and a commenter added that they did the same thing with the Sox), well I guess XM sponsored all the replays on the big screen ?Phanaticvision? at the Phillies home opener Monday. Every replay during the game had a red XM logo in the corner.

Anyone else got some XM sightings associated with MLB Teams? I hear there's a bunch.