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Wednesday 24 Sep 2014

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland at the Milk Cup

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This summer ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport Northern Ireland showcases the cream of the world's young footballing talent, bringing multi-platform coverage of the International Milk Cup tournament to a world-wide audience.

As ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport NI enters its sixth year as host broadcaster it remains dedicated to delivering quality coverage as seen in previous years.

With 54 teams from five continents competing, the tournament culminates in a live broadcast from the Ballymena Showgrounds on Friday 30 July. The games will be shown on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two NI from 6pm until 10pm. Presented by Stephen Watson the programme will feature both the Elite and Premier section finals as well as highlights of the Junior final. Former Milk Cup player Jim Magilton among others will provide expert analysis while main commentary will come from Jackie Fullerton.

From Monday 26 July, digital viewers across the UK can press their red buttons to view highlights of the best of the day's action, presented by Gavin Andrews. The finals will also be live behind the red button, and additional content will also be available including an introduction to the tournament and interviews with Northern Ireland goalkeeping legend Pat Jennings and former Chelsea star Ray Wilkins. This service is not available to Freeview viewers. The highlights round-up will be available to view online.

The Elite and Premier finals will also be streamed live on our dedicated website, . The site also features an interactive map where fans can find information about competing teams and where they have travelled from to be here.

Visitors to the site will find video packages with all the goals, highlights and best action from each day. Fans can submit their own images to the online photo gallery along with their views and comments by emailing milkcup@bbc.co.uk. An extensive video library is available on the website with archive footage, goals, team features and background to the festival of football.

MOO TV is back capturing the views, thoughts and comments about the tournament throughout the week. Fans can access all this through ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport Northern Ireland's dedicated Milk Cup website. Since 2010 is a World Cup year, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport NI will endeavour to persuade the Milk Cup players to join cameramen dressed as cows to try to recreate famous World Cup goals, including Gerry Armstrong's strike against the Spanish in 1982, Carlos Alberto's wonder goal at the 1970 World cup in Mexico and Archie Gemmill's mazy run and goal against Holland.

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