In the first non-baseball sporting event held at Busch Stadium, Manchester City topped Chelsea 4-3 in a lively exhibition soccer match. Late game heroics delivered a dramatic finish to this historic event.
Kaufman Broadcast’s HD2 was there for ESPN which broadcasted the match across the nation and internationally. Kaufman Broadcast multiplexed multiple MPEG 4 signals into a single transport stream for transmission.
Photos taken by Scott Rovak
Busch Stadium was transformed from a baseball field to a soccer pitch in less than 3 days. A similar process will be repeated this fall for college football. Southeast Missouri with square off against Southern Illinois on Saturday, September 21st.
Here is a time lapse video of the Baseball to Soccer to Baseball transition.
