Famous sports commentators in Russia

At all times sports had a large army of fans. Someone likes to watch the competitions while at the stadium, someone prefers to stay at home and watch everything that happens from the TV screens. Of course, it is much more interesting when a football or basketball match is played by skilful commentators. Some of them are no less popular than TV presenters of entertainment programs. Further in the article we will present to your attention who are the most famous sports commentators in Russia. Let's start, perhaps, with a real veteran.

Gennady Orlov

Before becoming a commentator, he was a football player, an attacker. In this field, he received the title of master of sports of the Soviet Union. Orlov is also a well-deserved worker of Russian culture and a laureate of the TEFI Award (2008). With football he began to get involved in school years, played for "Avangard" (Sumy), and after graduation he played in the Kharkiv team of the same name. After he was noticed by the coach of this team at the match with the Leningrad "Zenith", he received an invitation to go to the Northern capital and join it. For a while he played and lived in Leningrad, but at the age of 25 he had to leave football, as he was injured. Then he decided to return to his homeland, but met a beautiful girl Olga, who was an actress of the Komissarzhevskaya Theater. Thus, he remained for her and her acting career.

He came to television in 1973. In the edition of sports news after the death of Viktor Nabutov, one of the best sports commentators in Russia, a vacancy appeared and a contest was announced. Gennady Orlov decided to participate and won. So went-go, he led reports from the Olympics and the most important football matches of the country and the world. He became the leader of such sports programs of Leningrad television as "Penalty", "Again about football", "Football in Zenith". Then he was invited on ORT to conduct a program "Goal!" On a freelance basis. Since autumn 2009, Gennady switched to the channel "NTV-Plus", but continued to remain the unchanged commentator of the matches "Zenith". Since November 2015, he is a commentator on football broadcasts on the "Match TV" channel.

Georgy Cherdantsev

He also tops the rating of the best sports commentators in Russia. The main popularity as a sports presenter he got on the NTV channels, and then - NTV-Plus. Today is a commentator on the "Match TV". His television career began in 1996, when the staff of the new satellite TV channel NTV + was being recruited.

Initially, he was an interpreter, then he voiced small stories of sports reports. Further Vasily Utkin took him to correspondents for his author's program "Football Club". The first match he commented on in 1998. It was a record of a match between Italy and Norway at the World Championships in France. A year later he was hired by TNT and NTV + Football.

From time to time he replaced Vasily Utkin and led several issues of the "Football Club". In addition to television, he became the leading sports program on the radio station "Silver Rain". Like most of the country's top sports commentators, today he is a regular member of the television company Match TV.

Victor Gusev

And on the well-known channels which sports commentators? "Russia-1" and "First Channel" - this is a special brethren. Working in these TV companies is the highest achievement for most sports reviewers. V. Gusev has been working with television since 1992, first as a freelancer and host of the programs "Goal" and "Sport Weekend", which were on the "First Channel".

The first football match he commented on was a game between Moscow's Spartak and Galatasaray in the UEFA Champions League. Since 1995, he became a full-time employee of the "First Channel". By the way, it was he who, since 1996, was the leading sports block in the news programs "News" and "Time".

Then he became the head of the Directorate of Sports Programs "First Channel". Since 2004, he is the author and lead author of the 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 led the culinary game "The Lord of Taste." He won the TEFI three times , is vice president Federation of Sports Journalists of the Russian Federation.

Dmitry Guberniev

This sports commentator of Russia is not only one of the most famous, but also one of the most beloved television presenters of the country. Today he is a staff member of the TV channel "Match TV", as well as the editor-in-chief of the United Directorate of sports TV channels VGTRK. Twice was the winner of the TEFI award in 2007 and 2015. He got on television in the early 90's, taking part in the competition for the position of sports commentator for the new satellite channel NTV +, and then TV-6. His teacher on stage speech was Svetlana Kornelyevna Makarova, who was the teacher of Ekaterina Andreeva, Leni Parfenova, Mikhail Zelensky and Tina Kandelaki. Today he teaches by her methods and teaches young commentators.

How to win popularity

Since 2000, Dmitry Guberniev has become a sports commentator on the TV channels "Russia-1", and then "Sport", which later became known as "Russia-2". Every year his popularity as a leader increased. "The two-meter thick," as he calls himself, fell in love with the whole country. He is today the best sports commentator ("Russia-2" is a channel that can be called his home).

For a long time he was the co-host of the morning program "Good Morning, Russia!" And other programs. Since 2007, he has his own author's program - "Sports Week with D. Guberniev", as well as the program "Biathlon with Dmitry Guberniev", which he conducted for 5 years. You probably remember him as a member of Fort Boyard, one of the most interesting and extreme games in the world. Since 2000 he was a columnist of the diaries of the Olympics.

Sports commentators in Russia

In the article, we presented the four most popular sports reviewers in the country. Their voices are familiar to many of our compatriots, and not only, because sports broadcasts that 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. Sports commentators in Russia, whose photos we presented in the article, managed to achieve popularity with their diligence, as well as love and devotion to the sport.