Alex Hayes

Alex Hayes is a Journalist.

Biography

Early career

Alex started his journalistic career in magazines, working for Tatler in London as a Features Assistant between 1996 and 1998.

Newspapers

He then joined the Independent on Sunday as a football writer, where he reported on the Premier League, the Champions League, the England national team and European football. During his six years at the paper, he used his great language skills to land many exclusive interviews with world famous players and managers such as Ronaldinho, Eric Cantona, Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Johann Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Serge Blanco, Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, John McEnroe, Didier Drogba, Aime Jacquet and Zinedine Zidane.

TV

In 2004, Alex was recruited by the French TV channel TPS Foot (which was bought out by Canal Plus in 2006) to cover the Premier League. During the next three years, he combined his duties as the full-time UK correspondent for TPS and then Canal Plus with match-day presenting, commentating and reporting. He covered more than 250 Barclays Premier League games during his time at TPS/Canal Plus.

After a brief spell at Setanta, during which time he produced as well as directed an exclusive documentary on Didier Drogba, Alex joined Sky Sports in September 2007 as their Champions League reporter. During his time with Sky, Alex has interviewed such stars as Eric Cantona, Gianfranco Zola, Michel Platini, Karim Benzema, Patrice Evra, Lionel Messi, Gerard Houllier, Didier Drogba and Kaka.

Other career highlights

Alex is the UK correspondent for the world famous French sports daily newspaper L'Equipe, as well as the most important radio station in France RTL.

He is also a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph newspaper and Icon Magazine.

Alex is the author of two books: "The French Revolution"', a book about the influence of Gallic footballers in the UK and "laude Makelele's Autobiography".