If you’ve ever listened to a soccer broadcast on a BBC radio outlet, even online from the United States, you’ve almost surely heard Alan Green’s voice.
The Northern Irishman covered every World Cup from 1982 to 2014 for the renowned British network, plus countless games from the English Premier League and other European competitions.
Green was one of the BBC’s primary voices at the infamous Hillsborough stadium disaster, when 96 Liverpool fans were killed while attending their team’s 1989 FA Cup semifinal against Nottingham Forest in Sheffield.
On top of all that, he is the longtime host of a weekly global soccer program on the BBC World Service.