Eric Vieira is in the habit of waking early on the weekends, flipping on the TV and surfing through the cable channels to find the top European soccer games.

So when broadcasts of those games began moving from regular broadcast TV, known as linear, to streaming services a couple of years ago, he cut the cord and canceled his $140 cable package. Now he pays about the same amount to subscribe to 10 streaming services while the number of games he has access to has increased dramatically.

“I wanted to watch just the EPL, the big leagues, the big game,” he said.

Now he stumbles across teams and leagues he hasn’t seen before.

“It’s kind of like an added perk,” said Vieira, an educational consultant in suburban Dallas. “I wouldn’t say that’s the reason I signed up for it. But I enjoy that that’s there.”

What’s there is more than 2,400 games a year from five continents on CBS streaming service Paramount+; all 380 matches from Spain’s La Liga and 306 Bundesliga matches on ESPN+; and more than 200 Premier League matches, plus hundreds of hours of documentary and feature programming, on NBCUniversal’s Peacock.

It’s there around the clock, accessible on a cell phone, tablet, computer or a smart TV. Where once viewers had difficulty finding international soccer games in the U.S., now it’s almost impossible to miss them.

“There’s no better time to be a soccer fan in America than right now, with the amount of soccer or football that is offered to you,” said Rick Cordella, the executive vice president and chief revenue officer for Peacock.

The reason, of course, is technology. Streaming services allow providers to offer virtually unlimited programming through the internet. While that’s also true of entertainment-content streaming services such as Netflix, Apple+ and Hulu, the new paradigm has allowed soccer fans to become their own program directors, choosing which games to watch and when.

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