- Guillem Balague
Guillem Balague (Born
Barcelona ,Spain ) isSky Sports Spanish football expert and a respected journalist. He is a regular pundit onSky Sports ' show "Revista de la Liga" and has also written for some of Britain's top newspapers as well as several popular Spanish newspapers.Sky Sports
A trained journalist, Guillem joined
Sky Sports ' Spanish football team while working inLondon as a correspondent for "Don Balón", Spain's oldest and best selling football magazine.He can be seen on Sky Sports weekly programme Revista De La Liga, in which he provides weekly updates from behind the scenes of
La Liga , keeping viewers up-to-date with all the latest news and views.Guillem is also occasionally a feature on
Sky Sports News in which he reports about specific events taking place in Spanish football.Guillem Balague has given
Sky Sports ' live Spanish coverage and the weekly magazine show forLa Liga a crucial edge thanks to his knowledge of the Spanish game, links with La Liga's clubs and contacts with his fellow Spanish journalists.As well as television work with Sky Sports, he also has a weekly section on the
Sky Sports website which is a commentary in which he gives all the latest news fromLa Liga and answers readers' emails.Journalism
In June 2008, Guillem launched his own personal website www.guillembalague.com [ [http://www.guillembalague.com Guillem Balague Website ] ] featuring a blog, news and the opportunity to interact with Guillem directly.
Guillem is a respected
journalist and has written for many several English and Spanish newspapers.He has written articles in British newspapers
The Times andThe Observer , as well as a weekly column in the free daily commuter newspaper The Metro commenting mainly on stories involving continentalfootball .He is also well known for his work with Spanish football newspaper AS and Spain's national radio station [CADENA SER] [http://www.ondacero.es/] where he features on phone-ins regularly.
Guillem was a co-host, along with
Gabriele Marcotti , of TheGame, a footballpodcast hosted byThe Times , for the 2007-2008 Premier League season, But for the 2008-2009 Premier League season he has been replaced byPhill Jupitus .Personal
Guillem hails from
Barcelona and supports the local city teamRCD Espanyol .Guillem speaks fluent English which he learnt while at
university inLiverpool .He is a noted Liverpool FC fan.
He is a close friend of
Liverpool F.C. coachRafael Benitez , [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2005/12/04/sfnpb204.xml Lessons to be learnt in the battle of minds - Football News - Telegraph ] ] and in 2005 he wrote a book called 'A Season on the Brink: Rafael Benitez, Liverpool and the Path to European Glory' after their dramatic Champions League victory overA.C. Milan in 2005. [ [http://forums.booktrade.info/showthread.php?t=343 booktrade.info ] ] [ [http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=390561&root=europe& ESPNsoccernet - Europe - Q&A with Guillem Balague ] ]References
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