NASL and FIA Rallycross Headline the Weekend
Tampa Bay Rowdies take on the Jacksonville Armada in the first game of the fall season, while FIA World Rallycross tears through the Swedish countryside.
by Tim Stannard
SATURDAY - NASL MATCH OF THE WEEK - TAMPA BAY ROWDIES v JACKSONVILLE ARMADA: live on beIN SPORTS from 7.30PM ET
Indy Eleven may have won the spring season in the most dramatic of fashions, but the standings have now been wiped clean for the start of the Fall campaign. The battle is now on to see which three teams will be joining the Indianapolis outfit in the end-of-season play-offs.
That battle has been joined by a new contestant, Puerto Rico FC, but this weekend beIN SPORTS is all about two outfits that will hope to be in the play-off mix at the end of the campaign as the Tampa Bay Rowdies host Jacksonville Armada FC.
The Rowdies are best equipped to mount a challenge on the table after finishing fifth in the spring standings. And after a short break to catch breath and do a few chores, the Rowdies are ready for action says Michael Nanchoff. "We're super excited to be back playing again, we've had a good week of training and we are ready to go for it," enthused the midfielder to beIN SPORTS.
SUNDAY - FIA WORLD RALLYCROSS FROM HOLJES, SWEDEN: live on beIN SPORTS CONNECT from 07.45AM ET
The maddest, baddest drivers head to Scandinavia as Swede looks to defend lead on home soil
Local elks will be running for the nearby rolling hills as deafening but life-affirming FIA World Rallycross mayhem hits the one of the sports spiritual heartlands - Holjes Sweden.
The location of the hamlet near the Norwegian border shows exactly why Scandinavia has produced so many of history's great rallycross drivers - thousands of miles of off-road space to exploit and millions of trees to avoid in the process, all good process for the twists, turns and enormous jumps of the average rallycross course.
It is fitting that a Swede is leading the rallycross rankings with Mattias Ekstrom holding a slender five points advantage over defending champion, Petter Solberg, from neighbouring Norway.
Ekstrom is also very much the king of this particular winding, action-packed track with the Audi driver the FIA World Rallycross winner on home soil in Holjes in 2014 and 2015. "We are ready to make it three in a row," enthused the Swede.







