How We Can Watch Games Is...

Eintracht Frankfurt has a match against Werder Bremen on weekend. We shouldn't miss it! But...






Ei ei ei, I expected that Japanese TV broadcasting would provide us more games because of Ono and Hasebe, but the things are going worse for me and SGE fans in Japan.

I sometimes mutter about the situation of TV broadcasting in Japan, you know. At this moment, we can take two (legal) method to watch Bundesliga.

1. TV
2. Live Streaming by a JP company


Speaking about No.1;
The pay-TV company "Fuji 739" is small and poor so they has changed the TV schedules from this month.
[ Before ] All of the SGE's games will be on air this season.
[ Now ] They will select one game every Spieltag and let us know each time. + The highlights of about 5 minutes of each team's match of a Spieltag.

So far, we see we can watch these games on Fuji 739;
* 21 Spieltag = Bochum vs Hannover
* 22 Spieltag = Bochum vs Leverkusen
* 23 Spieltag = SGE vs Bochum
* after 24 Spieltag = (uncertain)

Bundesliga fans in Japan thought that they could watch one or two games of their own favorite team because all SGE's games were going to be on air. HOWEVER, now some fans might NOT be able to watch even one game of their favorite team, so they feel blue.



Speaking about No.2;
Recently they started to provide us streaming live of Bundesliga's matches on the site "ShowTime".
We should pay around 300 Yen as a monthly fee and can enjoy streaming video, but I think the fee isn't expensive and I think this site is safe (= no spam, no virus).

At this moment, ShowTime shows us one match of their choice every Speiltag. They seems to select one mainly of Bochum, Frankfurt and Wolfsburg.
Bundesliga fans never stick to Japanese players and want to enjoy Bundesliga, but most of contents providers care for fans of Ono, Ina and Hasebe.
Then, especially Bayern and Werder fans in Japan are crying, you know.

So far, we see we can watch these games on ShowTime;
* 21 Spieltag = SGE vs Bremen
* 22 Spieltag = Bochum vs Leverkusen
* after 23 Spieltag = (uncertain)




I know someone would say you can watch the live games on the site "bwin". Yeah, I know bwin show us all of the Bundesliga's games. I know, I know...
We could do it before, but now they has changed their rule like that;
You have to charge money on your bwin account if you want to watch live streaming.

I tried to charge some money, but bwin didn't accept my entry. Maybe bwin don't want to be involved in a trouble because Japanese law don't allow Japanese people to do betting via international bookmakers. So then I pretend to be a German person and make an account with German address and so on, but the bwin's system checked and detected my credit card is issued in Japan. Gee.
Well, it means, most Japanese people can't watch a live streaming via bwin. orz



BTW...,

It's too bad Soto has got injured. I hope Soto will get well soon. And some people say Marco Russ will play instead of Soto next game.

So today, some pro-photographers have an interest in Marco Russ. We can find Marco's photos more than as usual. lol


Oh Marco, you still have a pain on your left hand?!
Hope you'll be fine sooner.

Itai no Itai no Tondeke~~~




I'm so sorry, Soto..... but to be honest, I'm a bit happy if I will be able to see Marco... hehe.




The next match will start at 23:30 on Saturday of Japan Standard Time, and we can watch it only via ShowTime. I'm glad ShowTime provide us the repeat on demand, because...,

It's demanded that I should work in my office all over coming Saturday night! Ha-Ha-Ha-... orz


Anyway, I should think I'll be happy to be able to watch whole of SGE's play at the 21 Spieltag.
Werder is strong, but Go Eintracht Frankfurt! .... and hopefully Marco will be on the pitch.



# I know we can watch the games of Bundesliga via P2P streaming e.g. Sopcast or something. I also know it's your own risk to use it so I wouldn't mention about it here.


--- my monologue in Japanese ---

Soto が怪我してしまい、対楽隊戦の出場がビミョーとのこと。。。
もちろん Soto には早く治ってもらいたいけど、
そそそそれって、もしかして、マルコ・ルスちんがスタメン..？！
嗚呼、いけないと判っていつつも、黒い微笑みが浮かんでしまうワタクシ...
ダメよ、いけないわ！
でも、その次の 22 節はテレビも ShowTime も SGE の試合を流してくれないんだし、
出るなら是非 21 節でプリーズ！

マルコ・ルスの左手も、ソトの怪我も、他のみんなの怪我も、
早く良くなれ～～～☆
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