"Founder, The Soccer Academy"

Travels from: Manhattan Beach, CA

Antonio Soave hosts a very popular California soccer television program. The Soccer Academy© is an uplifting and inspirational television series for children, parents and soccer coaches around the world. The shows - produced as half-hour episodes - began in 2003 with three initial programs that successfully ran as a three-part series on CBS in Florida (Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa). The show received a consistent rating of between 1.6 and 2.2 over the course of one month. The show then expanded to six (6) episodes and aired for an eighteen (18) month period in southern California on KJLA and LATV, two of the largest bi-lingual networks in the nation. Every Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. from January of 2004 to July of 2005, The Soccer Academy© was broadcast to nearly four million homes in the Los Angeles basin. The show received a consistent 1.6 to 2.0 rating over the course of the broadcast. Given its encouraging and uplifting content, it qualified as "educational programming" for KJLA as well.

The Soccer Academy© has now been picked up for broadcast in twenty-two (22) countries in the region of North Africa and the Middle East (the "MENA" Region), expanding slightly into the Far East as well. It airs once per week in each of these countries and is receiving very good feedback. There are now thirteen (15) full episodes produced, the latest of which were filmed in the countries of USA, Italy, Jordan and Syria. Those episodes feature some of the fantastic backdrops around, including a tour through the ancient Roman cities of Jerash and Petra - locations used by Steven Spielberg in the "Indiana Jones" movies.

Most recently, KJLA/LATV has expanded into a full-fledged national television network and will be in ten (10) new markets in the United States and its territories. These cities include Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, Tucson, Houston, Las Vegas, Reno and San Juan (Puerto Rico). The Soccer Academy© will begin its new domestic broadcast season on Saturday, June 21, 2007 at 8:00 a.m. on the entire KJLA/LATV national network. It will, once again, qualify as primary educational programming for kids.

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