With some notable exceptions, the tone of language commentary has become more shrill even as the "rules" have become ossified and hieratic.
Inevitably there will be teething problems – the designation of the ball as "the white bullet" on the English language commentary on Univision has already achieved cult status on social media – and perhaps just as importantly, all the smart scheduling in the world can't legislate for the fact that on some weeks, the best action happens elsewhere.
On the radio, Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen are the play-by-play and color commentators, respectively, for the English language broadcasts on WPHT-AM (1210), while Danny Martinez and Bill Kulik provide the Spanish language commentary on WUBA (1480 AM).
You can watch the games with different language commentaries, including Arabic (it's like I'm watching YouTube clips!), German, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean.
If you don't understand signals, such as yellow cards and fouls, start watching games in English and then as you understand the game more, progress onto foreign language commentaries.
Through an agreement engineered by Univision's president, David Downs, matches are available with English-language commentary at superliga2007.com.
Cascading water from the still-melting snow crashed down in many waterfalls into the fjord and was the background music to the guide's four-language commentary.
"Our preemptive nuclear attacks will bring the provocateurs nothing but tragic consequences," an English-language commentary in Rodong Sinmun, the official paper of the Central Committee of the Workers Partyy of Korea, warned.
The video contained a message in Arabic and a Pashto-language commentary which said that a group of "apostates" had been captured after a battle between Isis fighters, Taliban and Afghan government forces.
The BBC had arranged Spanish-language commentary on all games involving South American teams – and Portuguese commentary of Brazil's matches – and distributed this freely among radio stations on their home continent.
"Such rhetoric, as well as the recent flurry of consultations between Washington and its allies, indicates that they have put the arrow on the bowstring and would shoot even without a U.N. mandate," Xinhua said in an English-language commentary.
