Derek Rae

Derek Rae
Born (1967-04-09) 9 April 1967 (age 57)
Aberdeen, Scotland
EducationAberdeen University
OccupationFootball commentator
Employer(s)ESPN (United States)
Deutsche Fußball Liga (Worldwide)
Amazon Prime Video (United Kingdom)
Known forCommentator in FIFA/FC Video games series
SpouseBeth Powers

Derek Rae (born 9 April 1967[1]) is a Scottish association football commentator and presenter. He currently works for ESPN and ABC in the United States for the English-language coverages of Bundesliga, DFB Pokal, and La Liga and Deutsche Fußball Liga for the English-language world feed as well as the Premier League coverage on Amazon Prime Video in the UK. He has provided the English commentary for the FIFA/EA FC video game series alongside former Arsenal players Lee Dixon in 2020 and Stewart Robson, who also played for West Ham United since 2021. He is also an ambassador for Berwick Rangers.

Early life and education

Rae grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland.[2] During his youth, he attended football matches with a tape recorder to work on his commentary. At 15, he began his professional broadcasting career by calling games for Grampian Hospital Radio that broadcast to local Aberdeen 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 commentary of a Scottish Premier Division game between Kilmarnock F.C. and Dumbarton F.C.[3] The station was impressed and hired Rae to commentate on the Rous Cup match between rivals England and Scotland the following week.[4] He remained with the BBC as its Scotland football correspondent, regularly commentating on Scottish Premier League and Scotland matches, a job he held for five years. Rae was the 1987 British Sports Broadcaster of the Year.[5]

Career

Rae moved to the United States in anticipation of the 1994 FIFA World Cup. FIFA hired him as a press officer and he oversaw the World Cup games that were held at Foxboro Stadium. Rae met his wife Beth Powers while working on World Cup preparations and the two would later settle in Beverly, Massachusetts.[5]

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.[5]

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 football discussion show, PressPass.[5] He also writes a column called "Rae's Say" for ESPNsoccernet.

Rae is fluent in German and dabbles in several other languages. Rae has been known to call consulates to confirm that he has the correct pronunciation of a player's name.[5]

From 2002 to 2009, he teamed up with Tommy Smyth as the lead broadcast team for the UEFA Champions League telecasts on ESPN2, including the final on-location.[6][7] The duo also paired up for their coverage of UEFA Euro 2008[8] and 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup[9] before they returned to provide alternate British English coverage on the Amazon Video broadcast of Thursday Night Football in the US since 2017.[10][11]

In August 2009, Rae began splitting his time between the States and Scotland after being hired as lead play-by-play commentator for Scottish Premier League matches on ESPN UK.[12]

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.[13] 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.

Rae served as a match commentator for ESPN USA's coverage of the UEFA Euro 2012 in Poland-Ukraine,[14] the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and UEFA Euro 2016 in France.[15][16]

In 2017 he announced that he was to leave BT Sport to return to the United States to work for ESPN.[17][18] 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.[19] This partnership continued in FIFA 20 with inclusion of him also commentating some 'default' games (kick off, tournament, career and Ultimate Team modes), as well as in FIFA 21. Since FIFA 22, Stewart Robson joined him for all broadcasts.[20][21]

Rae also worked as a commentator for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2022 FIFA World Cup for Fox Sports in the U.S., pairing with lead women's color commentator Aly Wagner.[22][23]

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.[24] 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.

He worked as one of the many commentators for Amazon Prime Video's UK Premier League coverage working alongside Sue Smith. In 2020, Rae was named as ESPN's lead Bundesliga commentator as well as a contributor to ESPN FC, a columnist on ESPN.com, while simultaneously doing the same for the world feed of the Bundesliga, and a commentator for the English-language La Liga coverage on ESPN/ABC in the United States.

Television credits

References

  1. ^ "Boston.com Local Search – Boston Globe Archives".
  2. ^ Legendary broadcaster and Aberdeen fan Derek Rae shares his favorite XI, Kieran Fleming, Aberdeen Live, 30 June 2022
  3. ^ Webster, Jack (28 April 1986). "Three of a kind". The Glasgow Herald. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  4. ^ Broadfoot, Darryl (28 July 2009). "Rae ready to make another transatlantic crossing". The Herald. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d e Gasper, Christopher L. (23 June 2005). "Great Scot: Rae on top of world". The Boston Globe.
  6. ^ "ESPN Goes to Rome for 2009 UEFA Champions League Final". Sports Media News. 21 May 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  7. ^ Harris, Christopher (9 April 2013). "ESPN Deserves Praise For Excellent Champions League Coverage". World Soccer Talk. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  8. ^ Powell, Brian (28 May 2008). "Your ESPN/ABC Commentators For Euro 2008". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  9. ^ "ESPN and ESPN2 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Television Commentators". Sports Media News. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  10. ^ "Amazon Prime Video Launches New Features for Thursday Night Football Allowing NFL Fans Around the Globe to Customize Their Streaming Experience". Press Center. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  11. ^ Bupp, Phillip (29 September 2017). "Amazon's NFL UK broadcast team is brutally honest about Bears' performance on TNF". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  12. ^ Mahoney, Ridge (25 September 2009). "Backline: ESPN's Derek Rae blazes new trail". SoccerAmerica. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  13. ^ "ESPN Play-by-Play Announcers for 2010 FIFA World Cup". ESPN Press Room U.S. 4 March 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  14. ^ Yoder, Ryan (25 May 2012). "ESPN reveals announcers for Euro 2012 coverage". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  15. ^ "ESPN Play-by-Play Commentators for 2014 FIFA World Cup". ESPN.com. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  16. ^ "Darke, Champion to call Euro games on site". ESPN.com. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  17. ^ "Derek Rae to quit commentating on Scottish football". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  18. ^ Harris, Christopher (4 May 2017). "Commentator Derek Rae announces return to United States". World Soccer Talk. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  19. ^ "FIFA 19 Champions League Features - EA SPORTS Official Site". EA SPORTS. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  20. ^ Bliss, Nathan; Hill, Sam (21 July 2021). "Alex Scott will feature in FIFA 22 as a Goal Commentator confirms EA". mirror. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  21. ^ White, Mark (30 September 2021). "Who are the FIFA 22 commentators? Alex Scott and Stewart Robson are new arrivals to the game". fourfourtwo.com. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  22. ^ Daniels, Tim. "Fox Announces World Cup 2018 Announcers, Aly Wagner Will Be 1st Female Analyst". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  23. ^ Bucholtz, Andrew (4 October 2022). "Full Fox 2022 FIFA World Cup commentator roster revealed, with all commentary teams on site". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  24. ^ Hernández, Kristian (7 June 2019). "Behind the Mic: Fox Sports Flies Out Broadcast Teams for 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France". Sports Video Group. Retrieved 30 June 2023.

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