For most American soccer fans, finding a game to watch should be the easy part. The difficult part can be figuring out where it is.
NBC has rights to the Premier League. CBS (and soon TNT) carries the UEFA Champions League and a sprawling collection of domestic and European competitions. ESPN has its own collection of leagues including La Liga. Apple TV has Lionel Messi and the MLS, FOX Sports US carries the CONCACAF Champions League. Other competitions are scattered across streaming services, and broadcast rights continue to move from one platform to another, like the Bundesliga this year switching to Fandango and USA Network.
Enter Braylon Breeze.
The University of Kentucky student has turned that confusion into a daily service for soccer fans on X, @Braylon_Breeze, tracking the English-language broadcasts of virtually every legally available soccer match in the United States on traditional TV or streaming services. His account has grown rapidly since he started with the 2026 World Cup, bringing together television schedules, announcer information, viewership figures and his own observations about the sport.
It is a remarkable amount of work for something that, to the person reading it on their phone, looks incredibly simple, and it’s even more remarkable because Braylon only began following the sport in June of this year.
From Casual Fan to Watching Soccer Every Day
Breeze is a third-year undergraduate at Kentucky, and his social-media account actually predates his soccer obsession. He started it in 2021 while still in high school, originally covering NHL hockey before gradually moving toward soccer.
His relationship with the sport was casual at first, he told me in an interview conducted via a video meeting:
“I would watch some Premier League and I would keep up with the US team when it was World Cup time,” Breeze said. “A very one of those World Cup casual fans.”
That changed this year. He had watched the United States, some Premier League and eventually the most recent Champions League final between PSG and Arsenal, but the sport had never become a daily part of his life. He didn’t have favorite players growing up or a long list of historic matches stored in his memory.
Now, he watches soccer almost every day.
“I wanted to find something that I find enjoying to cover and something I actually care about,” Breeze said. “With soccer, I enjoy it so much.”
What has kept him hooked is the sheer amount of football available.
“Endless stories you can find or rabbit holes you can dive in,” he said. “There’s just nothing like it from what I’ve experienced in sports fandom.”
That curiosity eventually turned into something much more useful than simply watching games.
Two or Three Hours of Work Behind a Weekend Schedule
The posts on his account that have attracted the most attention are Breeze’s daily United States soccer television schedules.
The concept is straightforward. He creates simple but informative graphics showing which matches are available in the United States, which network or streaming service carries them and, importantly, which ones are available in English.
The weekend schedule can stretch across several posts, covering everything from the Premier League on NBC to La Liga matches on ESPN+, Liga Portugal and lower-level English competitions including the Championship and EFL League 1 on networks like CBS Paramount.
He pins the schedule to his X profile so that fans can find it throughout the weekend.
Creating it is considerably less simple.
“Every weekend is massive,” Breeze said. “I’ll post everything from the Premier League on NBC to Bundesliga … or Liga Portugal on BeIN Sports Connect. It’s all included in my graphics.”
A weekday schedule might take 30 to 45 minutes.
Saturday and Sunday are different.
“I’m doing it for about two, three hours,” he said.
The reason is that Breeze does not simply copy another television guide and repost it. He checks the information himself because existing listings are not always accurate.
He specifically mentioned other websites, where he has found incorrect listings for competitions such as the Carabao Cup and England’s League One and League Two. CBS Paramount+ might carry some matches from a competition while leaving others elsewhere, meaning a fan cannot always assume that an entire tournament is available on the same service.
That kind of detail is easy to overlook until you’re the person trying to find the game five minutes before kickoff.
Breeze has made checking those details his routine, along with reports on US fan viewership, commentary pairings for each game, scorebugs, and more.
When Broadcasters Started Noticing
The growth of the account has brought something unexpected: attention from people working inside the soccer media industry.
One of them was Derek Rae. Rae, one of the most recognizable English-language soccer commentators in the American market, reached out to Breeze on his own to thank him for the work.
“He really been nice from the get-go,” Breeze said. “He reached out to me on his own actually, just to say he really appreciates what I’m doing. And he wishes me the best of luck.”
There was another step from the digital world into the real one when Taylor Twellman invited Breeze to an MLS match between FC Cincinnati and the Columbus Crew. Breeze attended the “Hell is Real” rivalry game this summer and spent the night around Apple’s MLS TV team.
“I got to hang out with the Apple guys for that night and it was really, really great,” he said. “So I got a full experience, got a full MLS atmosphere, a good one, too.”
For someone who only recently went from casual soccer fan to watching the sport every day, it was a remarkable introduction to the production behind the broadcasts he spends so much time tracking.
Learning the Sport One TV Broadcast at a Time
Breeze’s growing knowledge of soccer is not limited to knowing which channel carries which match. He has started developing his own tastes.
For the Premier League, like many Americans, he has settled on Everton, a club he gravitated toward even before becoming a serious soccer follower. He wants to make the trip to Liverpool to see Everton’s new Hill Dickinson Stadium, and he also hopes to visit San Siro before Inter Milan and AC Milan eventually leave the historic stadium.
He has developed an interest in Middlesbrough because of its collection of American players and the fact that the Championship is readily available on Paramount+.
More broadly, he has found himself following American players wherever they go.
“I want to follow the US guys, see what they’re up to,” Breeze said.
He is also deliberately trying to avoid becoming a one-league viewer. Serie A has become one of his favorites, partly because it has challenged the reputation he had heard about the league being overly defensive and stodgy.
“This season seems to be different from the narrative,” he said. “We’ve yet to have a zero-zero draw and there’s a lot of parity.”
The Bundesliga has caught his attention as well, although he has already noticed the familiar complaint of Bayern Munich‘s dominance.
What Makes a Good Soccer Presentation?
For someone who spends so much time cataloging broadcasts, Breeze has naturally developed opinions about how the sport should sound on television. He praised CBS and NBC’s soccer coverage for treating the growing fanbase of American viewers as genuine soccer fans rather than trying to simplify the sport for them.
“They’re talking about it as if we are from England ourselves,” he said of NBC. “We’re not getting this dumbed-down Americanized version of commentary or studio talk. It’s actual. It has substance to it. It’s quality.”
He feels similarly about CBS, particularly its extensive soccer programming including CBS Golazo Network and the depth of its analysts and correspondents.
But his favorite contrast may come from another language. Breeze has watched plenty of soccer in Spanish on networks like Telemundo, and he enjoys the difference in atmosphere.
“I do like the Spanish style,” he said. “I don’t really know how to put it into words, but they just — it’s very energetic in a way.”
That energy is something he sometimes misses from English-language broadcasts.
“It feels just like it’s a conversation at times,” Breeze said. “There’s not a lot of … sometimes you’re lacking some energy in the English ones.”
It is an interesting observation from someone who only recently entered the soccer world. Breeze’s account began by answering a practical question — what soccer is on television today? — but the more he watches, the more he is noticing the culture surrounding the sport, from the leagues he prefers to the voices that bring matches to life.
And he is still learning. He has not settled on a soccer podcast yet. He is still looking for writers to follow regularly. He is still discovering old commentators and historic matches.
For now, though, there is always another game. And somewhere on X, there is probably already a schedule from Braylon telling you exactly where to find it.
Main Photo Credit: Braylon Breeze
