Top games to watch in world soccer this week on TV or your streaming device:
Tuesday
7:10 p.m., Real Sociedad vs. Houston Dynamo, beIN Sports USA: The LFP World Challenge continues with Houston hosting the Spanish club in an exhibition match. San Jose defeated Sociedad 2-1 in an earlier game.
Wednesday
7:30 p.m., Orlando City vs. Philadelphia, MLS Live: The Union are unbeaten in its last five games while Orlando has just one win in its last seven.
8 p.m., U.S. vs. Ecuador, Univision Deportes: The exhibition will take place in Frisco, Texas. It's always difficult to predict how Jurgen Klinsmann will set up his team, but it should provide a glimpse of the 11 players that will at least start the Copa America Centenario. The U.S. defeated Puerto Rico 3-1 on Sunday. That Puerto Rico scored should give you some pause for how the team will do should it face Brazil, Argentina, Chile or Colombia.
9:55 p.m., Eibar vs. New York Cosmos, beIN Sports: The LFP World Challenge continues. It is a chance for you to watch Lawrenceville's Jimmy Maurer, who is the Cosmos' starting goalkeeper.
Friday
Noon, Czech Republic vs. Malta, ESPN3: There should be plenty of goals for the underrated Czechs in this game.
2:45 p.m., England vs. Australia, Fox Soccer 2Go: The Three Lions take on the Socceroos. After years of not being able to score, England finds itself with a wealth of goal-scoring talent for manager Roy Hodgson. Two of those scorers, Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane, found the net in last week's 2-1 win over Turkey.
7 p.m., Sporting KC vs. D.C. United, Univision Deportes: It will be interesting to see how KC plays without a few of its players who have been called into national team duty. Having lost of their last four, KC has fallen into seventh in the Western Conference and need to at least keep pace with the teams it is chasing.
7:30 p.m., Argentina vs. Honduras, ESPN3: It's Argentina, come on!
Saturday
10:15 a.m., Belgium vs. Swtizerland, ESPN2: To make @BlueFedora happy, this game is a late inclusion. Switzerland is a very good on defense, while Belgium is one of the more talented teams from back to front in Europe, if not the world. A good appetizer for the next game…
2:45 p.m., Real Madrid vs. Atletico Madrid, Fox: The finals of the Champions League is a rematch of 2014, won by Real Madrid. It will be a game between an Atletico team built on a group ethos, vs. a Real team built on an individual starts ethos.
5 p.m., Mexico vs. Paraguay, Fox Soccer 2Go: This one is going on at the Georgia Dome. More than 60,000 tickets have been sold. Manager Juan Carlos Osorio has his team playing decisive, fast soccer. Should be an entertaining game.
8 p.m., U.S. vs. Bolivia, Fox Soccer 2Go: Another friendly in the warmup for the Copa America Centenario.
8 p.m., Montreal vs. Los Angeles, MLS Live: Even with the return of Didier Drogba, Montreal hasn't won in six games while Los Angeles is unbeaten in its last nine.
Sunday
4 p.m., New York City vs. Orlando, ESPN: What a long six days it will have been for City to wait for this game after being throttled 7-0 by Red Bulls last week.
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