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The planet's prime sporting extravaganza, the FIFA World Cup 2010 is roughly the corner. The month-long tourney starts with the sport between hosts South Africa and Mexico at the Soccer City Stadium of Johannesburg on June 11 while the last will be held on July 11 at the similar site.

The 64 matches of the tournament will be held at three different times -- 5:30pm, 8:00pm and 12:30am Bangladesh time. however Bangladesh are mere spectators, enthusiasm surrounding the event is at its peak as always. To furnish to the demand of the spectators state-run Bangladesh box, the only terrestrial TV channel, will provide live coverage of 25 of the matches.

Twelve matches of the first round including the opening game will be telecast live while all but three matches from the Round of 16 past will also be broadcast live. owing to some rights-related issues the BTV won't be able to show two quarterfinals and the third place play-off.

However, all three group matches of Brazil and Argentina, the two most popular teams in our country, will be telecast live.

The opening and closing ceremonies are also expected to be telecast. Apart from these, a 25-minute highlights starting the time matches will be telecast also. It has been learnt that the primetime news, hearsay At Eight, may be brought forward for endless televise.