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Дерек Рэй
Родившийся (1967-04-09) 9 апреля 1967 (54 года)
Абердин , Шотландия
НациональностьШотландский
ЗанятиеФутбольный комментатор
РаботодательESPN , Бундеслига

Дерек Рэй (1967 г.р. [1] ) - футбольный комментатор и ведущий шотландской ассоциации, который в настоящее время работает на ESPN и Bundesliga World Feed . Он также является послом Бервик Рейнджерс .

Ранняя жизнь и образование [ править ]

Rae grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland. During his youth, he attended football matches with a tape recorder to work on his commentary. At the age of 15, he began his professional broadcasting career calling games for a radio station that broadcast to local hospitals. In 1986, BBC Radio Scotland announcer David Francey suffered a knee injury and Rae, a 19-year-old student at the University of Aberdeen who had sent the BBC a copy of his radio work, substituted for him on the call of a Scottish Premier Division game between Kilmarnock F.C. and Dumbarton F.C..[2] The network was impressed and hired Rae to call the Матч Кубка Рауса между соперниками Англии и Шотландии на следующей неделе. [3] BBC затем наняла его в качестве своего футбольного корреспондента в Шотландии, и он занимал эту должность в течение пяти лет. Рэй стала британской спортивной телеведущей 1987 года. [4]

Карьера [ править ]

Рэй переехал в США в преддверии чемпионата мира по футболу 1994 года . ФИФА наняла его в качестве пресс-атташе, и он курировал игры чемпионата мира, которые проводились на стадионе Фоксборо . Рэй познакомился со своей женой Бет Пауэрс, когда работал над подготовкой к чемпионату мира, и позже они поселились в Беверли, штат Массачусетс . [4]

Rae called Major League Soccer games for the New England Revolution from 1996 to 1999 and again in 2001, for the MetroStars in 2000 and the Los Angeles Galaxy in 1996.[4]

After the World Cup, Rae joined ESPN International, where he called Eredivisie and Campeonato Brasileiro Série A games. His role later expanded to calling more than 150 games a year and hosting a weekly studio-based soccer discussion show, PressPass.[4] He also writes a column called "Rae's Say" for ESPNsoccernet.

Rae is fluent in German and speaks several other languages partially. Rae has been known to call consulates to confirm that he has the correct pronunciation of a player's name.[4]

In August 2009, Rae began splitting his time between the States and Scotland after being hired as lead commentator for Scottish Premier League matches on the UK version of ESPN.[5]

In June 2010, he was in South Africa to commentate on 12 matches at the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals for ESPN USA partnered by Robbie Mustoe and Ally McCoist. In the summer of 2010 it was announced that Rae would be making the move back to the UK to continue commentating on a wider basis for ESPN's London-based channel.

In July 2013, Rae was confirmed as one of the lead voices on the new BT Sport channels. He commentated every week on the SPFL as well as the Europa League, Bundesliga and Ligue 1.

Рэй была комментатором матча на канале ESPN USA, посвященном финалу чемпионата мира по футболу 2014 года в Бразилии и Евро-2016 во Франции. [6]

In 2017 he announced that he was to leave BT Sport and would return to the states to work for ESPN.[7][8] Rae also calls selected Premier League matches and has been a studio host for NBCSN. He will be calling Rugby Six nations games for them in 2018, having announced it on his Twitter feed on 29 January. In 2018, Rae became a commentator alongside Lee Dixon for FIFA 19's UEFA club tournament part of the game which can be found in Kick Off, tournaments and Career mode..[9] This partnership continued in the 2019 game, FIFA 20 with inclusion of him also commentating some 'default' games (kick off, tournament, career and Ultimate Team modes) alongside Lee Dixon once again, as well in FIFA 21.

Rae also worked as a commentator for the 2018 FIFA World Cup for Fox Sports in the U.S., calling group stage games from a Los Angeles studio with Aly Wagner as an analyst. The duo then flew to Russia as on site commentators for Morocco-Iran, Costa Rica-Serbia, Tunisia-England, Uruguay-Saudi Arabia, France-Peru, Nigeria-Iceland, England-Panama, Iran-Portugal, Iceland-Croatia, England-Belgium, Spain-Russia, Colombia-England and Sweden-England.

Rae broadcast his first MLS game for Fox on 2 March 2019 with a match between the LA Galaxy and the Chicago Fire at Dignity Health Sports Park with former MLS player Maurice Edu.

He forged an on air partnership in France with former US women’s national team defender Danielle Slaton during the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup again on Fox Sports. They were commentators for many high profile matches including most of the France and Netherlands matches & ending with the Netherlands-Sweden semi final on 3 July 2019.

Rae worked as one of the many commentators for Prime Video's UK Premier League coverage working alongside Sue Smith. Rae can often be heard commentating for the world feed of the Bundesliga.

Since 2017, Rae has also teamed with Tommy Smyth to provide alternate British English coverage on the Amazon Video broadcast of Thursday Night Football in the US.

In 2020, Rae was named as ESPN's lead Bundesliga commentator as well as a contributor to ESPN FC and a columnist on ESPN.com.

Rae is famous for his FIFA commentary. Mispronouncing footballers names numerous times. Most notably, butchering Bruno Fernandes’ name.

TV Credits[edit]

  • FIFA World Cup: 1998 (ABC/ESPN), 2010 (ABC/ESPN), 2014 (ABC/ESPN), 2018 (Fox Sports)
  • UEFA Champions League: 2002-2009 (ESPN), 2015-2017 (BT Sport)
  • UEFA Europa League: 2009-2013 (ESPN UK), 2013-2017 (BT Sport)
  • UEFA European Championship: 2008 (ABC/ESPN), 2012 (ABC/ESPN), 2016 (ABC/ESPN), 2021 (ABC/ESPN)
  • Scottish Premiership: 2009-2013 (ESPN UK), 2013-2017 (BT Sport)
  • Premier League: 2009-2013 (ESPN UK), 2017-present (NBC Sports), 2019-present (Prime Video)
  • FIFA Women's World Cup: 1999 (ABC/ESPN), 2019 (Fox Sports)
  • Bundesliga: 2009-2017 (ESPN UK/BT Sport), 2017-present (World Feed), 2020-present (ABC/ESPN)
  • MLS: 2019 (Fox Sports)
  • New England Revolution PxP: 1996-1999, 2001
  • LA Galaxy PxP: 1996
  • MetroStars PxP: 2000

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Boston.com Local Search – Boston Globe Archives".
  2. ^ Webster, Jack (28 April 1986). "Three of a kind". The Glasgow Herald. Retrieved 12 June 2012. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. ^ Broadfoot, Darryl (28 July 2009). "Rae ready to make another transatlantic crossing". The Herald. Retrieved 12 June 2012. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. ^ a b c d e Gasper, Christopher L. (23 June 2005). "Great Scot: Rae on top of world". The Boston Globe.
  5. ^ Mahoney, Ridge (25 September 2009). "Backline: ESPN's Derek Rae blazes new trail". SoccerAmerica. Retrieved 12 June 2012. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  6. ^ "ESPN Play-by-Play Commentators for 2014 FIFA World Cup". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2 June 2014. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  7. ^ "Derek Rae to quit commentating on Scottish football". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  8. ^ Harris, Christopher (4 May 2017). "Commentator Derek Rae announces return to United States". World Soccer Talk. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  9. ^ "FIFA 19 Champions League Features - EA SPORTS Official Site". EA SPORTS. Retrieved 3 January 2019.