“Eric Wynalda is back in broadcasting.”
“The Hall of Famer and former ESPN commentator will join Fox Football Fone-In, Fox Soccer Channel’s Monday night call-in show, when the show’s sixth season starts Aug. 10 at a new time of 7 p.m. ET.
“I enjoyed covering the games,” Wynalda says. “But being a commentator, following the game around and throwing rocks at your friends isn’t necessarily a dream job. It’s something that I fought with week-in, week-out.
“I’m still a fan of this game. I still love it. When this opportunity came along — this is more of a dream job. It’s once a week, it’s right in my backyard, I don’t have to travel, and I still get to do what I love, and that’s talk about the game.”
Wynalda replaces Steven Cohen, an English-born radio host who recently drew protests from Liverpool fans and the club itself for comments saying unticketed fans were a major factor in the 1989 stadium disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans died. U.S. fans of the club led an effort to convince sponsors to distance themselves from Cohen’s shows. Cohen apologized (audio, including foul language), claiming he had received death threats.
Neither Wynalda nor Dermot McQuarrie, FSC’s senior VP of production and programming and assistant general manager, would comment on Cohen or the Liverpool controversy.”
