Ralf Itzel

Ralf Itzel (* 1969 in Munich ) is a German football commentator and sports journalist .

Life

From 1996 to 2014 Itzel worked for the private television broadcaster Eurosport as a commentator on football broadcasts, including the 1998 World Cup , EM 2000 , various African , World and European women's championships , the Algarve Cup , the AFC Champions League (on Eurosport 2 ) and many more World and European championships for the male and female youth teams as well as the Futsal World Championship . In addition, he was a regular voiceover for the soccer magazines Eurogoals and Champions Club . From June 2014 to January 2015 he was employed by the Brazilian television network TV Globo .

He has also been working as a freelance sports journalist since 1990 and has written for daily newspapers such as the Berliner Zeitung , Financial Times Deutschland , Frankfurter Rundschau , Hamburger Abendblatt , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , Stuttgarter Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , taz and the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger , magazines like stern and online portals like derwesten.de , mainly about Spanish football . He also worked alongside Axel Höpner and Markus Hederer as the author of the sports yearbooks Falken Sportjahr 95 and Falken Sportjahr 96 , published by Falken-Verlag .

Itzel lived in Madrid from 1996 and in Brazil since 2014. He speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently as well as Italian.

Web links

• Ralf Itzel's Facebook page

Individual evidence

1. ↑ autograph card. autogrammoase.de, accessed on September 27, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Some of our staff. eurosport.com, archived from the original on December 29, 2011 ; Retrieved February 1, 2012 . 
3. ^ Commentators - Football , Eurosport Teletext p. 366, accessed on November 15, 2011