FRANCE98 – Andres Cantor Chat
FRANCE98 Chat!
With Andres Cantor
Chat Date: 4 December 1997 Chat Time: 23:00 – 23:30 Paris Time
(5:00pm – 5:30pm US Eastern Time)Andres Cantor will appear on France98.com for an exclusive chat session on 4 December 1997 from 23:00 – 23:30 Paris time (5:00pm – 5:30pm US Eastern Time) . . . . that’s right after the Final Draw!
Sign on to France98.com on 4 December to follow the Final Draw live, then stick around to chat about it with Andres Cantor. He’ll be answering questions about FRANCE98, the Draw, and who’s likely to score the most “GOOOOOALS” next year.
Andres Cantor is Univision’s football play-by-play announcer seen live weekly on the network’s Sunday sports and features program Domingo Deportivo. His distinguished track record as a sports journalist is highlighted by coverage of four World Cups: Spain ’82, Mexico ’86, Italy ’90, and USA ’94 – where he announced all 52 matches. He has also announced two Copa Americas (Brazil ’89 and Chile ’91); and two European Nations Championships (Germany ’88 and Sweden ’92). Cantor’s enthusiastic trademark of shouting “GOOOOAL” has made him a favourite of football fans around the world.
Having been honored as the “1994 Sports Personality of the year” by the American Sportscaster Association, for his performance during the 1994 World Cup, Andres Cantor is poised to once gain retain his title as the top personality in the world’s most popular game. Starting on 10 June, 1998, Cantor will broadcast 62 FRANCE98 matches over six weeks of action. If you take the 2.5 goals scored per game during the 1994 World Cup as a guide, you will hear Cantor’s famous call of “GOOOOOAL!” at least 262 times during FRANCE98. While one of the best players could score 8 goals during a World Cup, Cantor will be involved in almost every goal for the entire tournament.
Andres Cantor can also be heard on his syndicated radio program, Futbol de Primera. Prior to joining Univision Sports, Cantor was a correspondent for Radio Mitre of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he covered the ’84 Olympics. Perviously, he worked for Editorial Atlantida, a publisher of six magazines. It was here that he began his career in 1979 as a writer covering international football events.
