16 Oct, 2021 @ 12:04
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Gary Lineker making a return to Spain’s La Liga

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Gary Lineker

ENGLAND legend and top TV pundit Gary Lineker has become the most recent signing to the latest project from La Liga.

The former Leicester, Spurs and Barcelona player, who won the Golden Boot at the World Cup in Mexico in 1996, has joined the team of presenters at LaLiga TV, just after the channel launched  an ambitious project to broadcast Spanish football in English 24 hours a day.

“We started  broadcasting three years ago for all of sub-Saharan Africa and in 2019 we reached Ireland and the United Kingdom,” explains Roger Brosel, head of Content and Programming at LaLiga.

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Gary Lineker in his Barcelona days

“Thanks to the agreement with the operator Premier Sports, the channel is now available on Sky, Amazon Prime and Virgin TV.

The former BBC Match of the Day presenter will join other top-level former footballers including Albert Ferrer, Gustavo Poyet and Gaizka Menditea, for live broadcasts of  LaLiga Santander matches and in post match analysis programmes produced in English from the Mediapro studios in Barcelona.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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