{"id":125110,"date":"2021-09-06T23:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T23:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=125110"},"modified":"2021-09-07T04:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T04:59:08","slug":"socceroos-icon-joins-stan-sport-football-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=125110","title":{"rendered":"Socceroos icon joins Stan Sport football coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Sport has announced the signing of one of Australia&#x27;s most renowned football experts, with Mark Bosnich to join former Matilda Grace Gill and UK-based football presenter Mark Pougatch for its exclusive coverage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/stan-sport-uefa-champions-league-rights-next-three-seasons\/d7982319-3444-454d-b1e9-08e51705d9d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"UEFA Champions League\">UEFA Champions League<\/a>, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Socceroos icon, who played Premier League and Champions League for <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/aston-villa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Aston Villa\">Aston Villa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/manchester-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Manchester United\">Manchester United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a>, will join\u00a0host\u00a0Max Rushden and expert\u00a0Craig Foster for<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Stan Sport&#x27;s coverage of the UEFA Champions League group stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo and football&#x27;s biggest superstars in the<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stan.com.au\/football?utm_source=wwos&amp;utm_medium=partner&amp;utm_campaign=football_article\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong><em>UEFA Champions League<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <strong><em>with every match streaming ad-free, live and on-demand only on Stan Sport from September 15.<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stan.com.au\/football?utm_source=wwos&amp;utm_medium=partner&amp;utm_campaign=football_article\" title=\"Click here to sign up!\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Start your 7-day free trial here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those matches begin on September 15.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m so excited to be joining Stan&#x27;s coverage of\u00a0the UEFA\u00a0Football competitions,&quot; Bosnich said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a5e58383-3785-4706-8c30-6faed3b03254\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a5e58383-3785-4706-8c30-6faed3b03254\" alt=\"Former Australian representative Mark Bosnich joins Stan Sport.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Having played Champions League and the old UEFA Cup (now Europa League) it&#x27;s such a part of my being that it&#x27;s a wonderful feeling to be a part of it again.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Since the 90&#x27;s, the UEFA Champions League has been regarded the pinnacle of Football worldwide\u00a0with the best players from around the world (regardless of where they are born)\u00a0competing\u00a0with and against each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealBozza\/status\/1435015495124541440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealBozza\/status\/1435015495124541440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m looking forward to working again with Max Rushden, and finally having the opportunity to work with my old Socceroos teammate Craig Foster. We&#x27;ll certainly bring a whole new combination to football coverage in Australia. Plenty of passion, entertainment, and of course some fun awaits!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Gill, a former Matilda who won two W-League Championships with Canberra United, will provide a fresh approach, with strong analysis, while Pougatch will be on the sideline interviewing the big names from all the key matches across Europe.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"1023c9ed-a3fd-4672-84b6-194bc75b8c54\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1023c9ed-a3fd-4672-84b6-194bc75b8c54\" alt=\"Mark Bosnich in action for Australia in 1997.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stan&#x27;s acting chief executive Martin Kugeler said it&#x27;s an exciting period for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are delighted to announce Mark Bosnich, Grace Gill and Mark Pougatch\u00a0as our newest signings for Stan&#x27;s UEFA Club Competitions coverage,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The outstanding strength and quality of the team both here in Australia and in Europe shows Stan&#x27;s commitment and ambition to bring world class coverage of the best club football tournaments to fans in Australia.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Stan&#x27;s coverage of the UEFA Champions League group stage begins on Wednesday 15 September\u00a0with an epic encounter between European heavyweights Barcelona and Bayern Munich with live, ad-free and on-demand coverage from 2.45am (AEST).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Stan Sport has announced the signing of one of Australia&#x27;s most renowned football experts, with Mark Bosnich to join former Matilda Grace Gill and UK-based <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=125110\" title=\"Socceroos icon joins Stan Sport football coverage\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125112,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125110\/revisions\/125112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}