I spent 8 months in Santiago last year working on South American projects, and the biggest headache wasn't getting used to avocado with every meal, it was scrambling to find Chinese commentary for major football matches. When I saw the 2026-27 Champions League Group Stage Matchday 4 schedule pitting PSG against Dortmund, my first thought was to give fellow Chinese fans in Chile a heads up: don't wait until 10 minutes before kickoff to look for a stream, you probably won't find a single Chinese commentator on any local platform.
Let me break down why that is: the Champions League broadcast rights in Chile are almost exclusively held by Latin American providers like DirecTV. Their target audience is local Spanish speakers, so they only offer English commentary as an optional extra at most, never mind French, German, or Chinese. The slang and player nicknames local commentators use will be completely unfamiliar to most Chinese fans. Last time I listened to a Spanish broadcast talking about Messi, it took me half a minute to realize
