With Disney’s high investment in content and sporting events ESPN I decided to increase the number of international correspondents in Europe. From August, commentator Gustavo Hoffmann will be able to broadcast the channel’s sports programming live from Madrid, the capital of Spain.
Information Collected by the news, Confirmed by ESPN. This promotion was really something Hoffmann wanted, as he had a personal goal of staying on the European continent for a period of life experience and increasing his knowledge of football. He moves from Brazil in July with all his family.
Gustavo Hoffmann will mainly serve as a reporter at events, but will also be a commentator From the matches of the Spanish championship and English remotely. In Europe, ESPN already has three other names: João Castelo-Branco and Natalie Gedra, based in England; And Andre Linares, who will continue in Spain, but in Barcelona.
Born in Campinas, in the interior of Sao Paulo, Gustavo Hoffmann is 40 and has been with ESPN since 2011. Before becoming a journalist, he played basketball for Sociedade Hípica and Tênis Clube, both in Campinas. He considered pursuing a career at the time, but chose to be a sports journalist.
Prior to ESPN, Hoffman worked as a reporter for the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo and the Terra Gateway. He was also a reporter for Trivela magazine and editor for the publishing website. His arrival on television came due to his extensive knowledge of European football, both in the big centers and in less targeted places, such as Eastern Europe.
He was responsible for covering Germany during the 2014 World Cup, on ESPN channels – which he turned into a book titled 40 Days with the World Champion, in which he talks about the scenes behind Germany’s title in Brazil. The Qatar Cup is already scheduled to be covered in November, As expected the news last week.
