At all times, sports have had a large army of fans. Someone likes to watch competitions while at the stadium, someone prefers to stay at home and follow everything that happens on TV screens. Of course, it is much more interesting when a football or basketball game is led by skillful commentators. Some of them are as popular as entertainment TV presenters. Further in the article, we will present to your attention who the most famous sports commentators in Russia are. Let's start with a real veteran.
Gennady Orlov
Before becoming a commentator, he was a football player, striker. In this field, he received the title of Master of Sports of the Soviet Union. G. Orlov is also an Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation and a laureate of the TEFI Prize (2008). He became footballto get involved in his school years, he played for Avangard (Sumy), and after graduation he played in the Kharkov team of the same name. After the coach of this team noticed him at the match with the Leningrad “Zenith”, he received an invitation to go to the Northern capital and join its composition. For a while he played and lived in Leningrad, but at the age of 25 he had to leave football because he was injured. Then he decided to return to his homeland, but he met a beautiful girl, Olga, who was an actress in the Komissarzhevskaya theater. So he stayed for her and her acting career.
He came to television in 1973. After the death of Viktor Nabutov, one of the best sports commentators in Russia, a vacancy appeared in the editorial office of sports news and a competition was announced. Gennady Orlov decided to participate and won. So it went, it went, he was reporting from the Olympics and the most important football matches of both the country and the world. He became the host of such sports programs on Leningrad television as “Pen alty”, “Again about football”, “Football at Zenith”. Further, on a freelance basis, he was invited to ORT to host the Goal! program. Since the fall of 2009, Gennady switched to the NTV-Plus channel, but continued to remain the same commentator on Zenit matches. Since November 2015, he has been a commentator on football broadcasts on the Match TV channel.
Georgy Cherdantsev
He also leads the ranking of the best sports commentators in Russia. He gained his main fame as a sports presenter onTV channels NTV, and then - "NTV-Plus". Today he is a commentator on Match TV. He began his television career in 1996, when he recruited the staff of the new satellite television channel NTV +.
Initially, he was a translator, then he voiced small plots of sports reports. Further, Vasily Utkin took him as a correspondent for his author's program “Football Club”. He commented on the first match in 1998. It was a recording of the match between Italy and Norway at the World Cup in France. A year later, he was hired by TNT and NTV + Football channels.
From time to time he replaced Vasily Utkin and hosted several editions of the Football Club. In addition to television, he became the host of sports programs at the Silver Rain radio station. Like most of the best sports commentators in the country, today he is a permanent employee of Match TV.
Viktor Gusev
And what are the sports commentators on famous channels? “Russia-1” and “Channel One” are a special brotherhood. Working for these broadcasters is the pinnacle of achievement for most sportswriters. V. Gusev has been working with television since 1992, first as a freelancer and host of the Goal and Sports Weekend programs that were broadcast on Channel One.
The first football match he commented on was the game between Spartak Moscow and Galatasaray in the UEFA Champions League. Since 1995, he has become a staff member of Channel One. By the way, it was he who from 1996 was the hostsports block in the news programs “News” and “Time”.
Then he became the head of the Directorate of Sports Programs of Channel One. Since 2004, he has been the author and host of the author's program "On Football with Viktor Gusev." He also became a member of the popular projects "The Last Hero" (third part), "Lost" and the game "Big Race". In addition to sports programs, he also hosted the culinary TV game "Lord of Taste". He received the TEFI award three times, is vice president Federation of Sports Journalists of the Russian Federation.
Dmitry Guberniev
This Russian sports commentator is not only one of the most famous, but also one of the most beloved TV presenters in the country. Today he is a staff member of the Match TV channel, as well as the editor-in-chief of the Joint Directorate of Sports TV Channels of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Twice he was the winner of the TEFI award in 2007 and 2015. He got on television in the early 90s, taking part in a competition for the position of a sports commentator for the new satellite channel NTV +, and then TV-6. His stage speech teacher was Svetlana Kornelievna Makarova, who was the teacher of Ekaterina Andreeva, Leni Parfenov, Mikhail Zelensky and Tina Kandelaki. Today, he himself teaches according to her methodology and teaches young commentators.
How to gain popularity
Since 2000, Dmitry Guberniev became a sports commentator on the Russia-1 TV channels, and then Sport, which later became known as Russia-2. With everyOver the years, his popularity as a host has increased. The whole country fell in love with the “two-meter long pole”, as he calls himself. Today he is the best sports commentator ("Russia-2" is a channel that can be called his home).
For quite a long time he was the co-host of the morning program "Good morning, Russia!" and other gear. Since 2007, he has his own author's program - "Week of Sports with D. Guberniev", as well as the program "Biathlon with Dmitry Guberniev", which he hosted for 5 years. You probably remember him as a participant in Fort Boyard, one of the most interesting and extreme games in the world. Since 2000, he has been a columnist for the diaries of the Olympics.
Russian sports commentators
In the article we have presented the four most popular sports writers in the country. Their voices are familiar to many of our compatriots, and not only, because the sports programs that are broadcast on Russian TV channels are also watched by residents of the CIS countries, and these men have become very dear and beloved. As for their faces, we see them less often, but nevertheless they are also recognizable. Russian sports commentators, whose photos we presented in the article, managed to achieve popularity with their hard work, as well as love and devotion to sports.
