Live From CONCACAF W Championships: Oscar Sanchez Leads International Production Effort in Mexico Besides showcasing women's football, the goal is to boost women's career opportunities By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director
Friday, July 8, 2022 - 11:42 am
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The trek to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2024 Olympics is under way in Monterrey, Mexico, where CONCACAF is holding its 2022 CONCACAF W Championship July 4-18. With eight teams divided into two groups of four, the top two teams of each round-robin group qualify for the World Cup, and the two third-place teams advance to a playoff (the winner also qualifies for the 2024 Olympics). For Oscar Sanchez, director, broadcast operations/executive producer, CONCACAF, it's all part of an effort that has produced and delivered 160 women's football matches to fans this year.
CONCACAF's Oscar Sanchez: We're investing heavily on this one. We want the coverage to look as good as the men's coverage looks.
This is a good place to do football because this is a football town, he says. It's challenging because we're putting together two different production teams: we have a UK-based team working with a Mexican team. It has been fun, and we're happy so far with what we are seeing.
With the Women's Euros also kicking off this week and the CONMEBOL Women's tournament starting soon in Colombia (and another women's tournament in Asia as well), women's football is getting a global push, and Sanchez says CONCACAF is making sure the production shines.
From left: CONCACAF W Championships Technical Director/Vision Mixer Niahm Bhreathnack, Director Grant Philips, and Producer Laura McDonald call the front bench in a Televisa production truck home July 4-18.
It's very important that we look as good as the others, and we're investing heavily on this one, he says. We also want the coverage to look as good as the men's coverage looks. That's why we decided to bring in Director Grant Philips, one of the best soccer directors in the world, with his crew. We wanted to bring in a proper crew for this.
The team from Europe includes a vision mixer from Ireland, an EVS producer, two EVS operators, two camera operators, and a floor manager.
Sanchez says bringing over a UK-based production team that works on big international matches is important because the gold standard in football production has a UK feel.
A drone shot of Estadia BBVA and the TV compound
Directing in football is subjective, says Sanchez, but, at the end of the day, what you see in European football, Champions League, and the Premier League is what fans are used to. We want to give women's football in the region the best level of production possible. In this region, we have the U.S., which are the World Cup champions, and Canada, which is the Olympic gold-medalist team. This is a great opportunity for the world to see the best players and to showcase them.
The core team from the UK is complemented by a Mexican production team as well Producer Laura McDonald, who is from Jamaica. McDonald's profile in the industry rose after she completed the HBS Broadcast Academy, which is an international effort focused on development of next-generation talent via intensive training combining real-world experience and training from some of the best directors and production professionals on the planet. Also on the team is EVS operator Ashley Moore, likewise a graduate of the HBS Broadcast Academy, as Sanchez and CONCACAF look to create a talent pool across the Caribbean and beyond.
We're trying to link what we're doing with the Broadcast Academy, says Sanchez. Laura was probably one of the first to come out of the Broadcast Academy, and now she's producing the most important women's event in the region and is also going to Qatar for the FIFA World Cup. She's a great storyteller, she knows the sport and teams, and she's great at all the skills a producer needs: she's organized, knows the structure, and has knowledge in other production areas, like directing and being a venue manager. She has a holistic view of the process; we love that.
The tournament is an intense run for the production teams. Two venues are in use: Estadio Universitario and BBVA (which will host 2026 World Cup matches). In the group stage, a single crew will produce a doubleheader of evening matches at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time, with match days alternating between stadiums.
MediaPro is onsite at the CONCACAF W Championships, supporting CONCACAF's production efforts.
We're using the Televisa truck that they use to produce the Liga MX matches here as there are two teams in Monterrey with a huge fan base, says Sanchez. MediaPro is also providing some resources like an EVS IPDirector for us as they have a presence here in Mexico.
There will be four matches on July 11, with a Mexican production crew handling two of the matches and the Scottish crew producing the others. The group-stage productions will be done with 16 cameras, a drone, and a super-slo-mo camera system.
CBS Sports reporter Jenny Chiu interviews USWNT head coach Vlatko Andonovski ahead of the U.S. team's 5-0 win over Jamaica on Thursday night.
For the knockout stage, the production will add a Cablecam and a couple more super-slo-mos. And rightsholders CBS Sports, ESPN Mexico, Canada's One Soccer, and TUDN will increase their onsite presence with studio shows and on-air talent.
From the semifinals on, says Sanchez, CBS will bring in a big team of around 120 people for the studio show, which will feature some legends and former players. They will also call the games from here. CBS has been doing a great job with women's football, and we can tell they are putting f
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Live From CONCACAF W Championships: Oscar Sanchez Leads International Production Effort in Mexico Besides showcasing women's football, the goal is to boost women's career opportunities By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director 
