European
90:00 Soccer’s writers are located all over Europe to cover the major championships, the Champions League and international competitions. Check out and your page to the list!
Shai Mamou
Shai is 22 years old and lives near Paris, France. he studied English for three years after his High School Diploma then he went for two years in a journalism school and graduated in 2010. He is currently working for Football.fr (French soccer website) since 2009 and hi is also a free-lance journalist. He is deeply in love with soccer and interested in every competition across the world, even the less famous leagues. He is also a passionate fan of NBA and poker even if it can’t drive him as crazy as a soccer game.
Mac Byrne
Mac is an Account Manager and freelance sports journalist/writer based in Portsmouth, UK.
He’s a self confessed national and international ‘total football geek’ and has researched and watched football in a dozen countries. Mac is a mad keen Chelsea (pre-£££) fan, which is his ‘specialist subject’ and as it’s his ‘patch’ will also write about England’s south coast teams – Bournemouth (where he originates), Southampton (where he works), Portsmouth and Brighton.
Having obtained a degree in Business Studies Mac has written for such brands as Renault, Marriott Hotels, Fitness First, Pfizer, and The London Boat Show as well as a number of the UK’s largest tourist attractions. He has also written for a number of hobbyist magazines and websites.
Mac also has strong family links – and subsequently a big interest in – Italy/Italian football and visits regularly.
Mac says he believes you can be whatever you put your mind to and your heart into and his ambition is to become a full-time freelance football writer.
Rodney Ballantine
Rodney is 28 years old from Northern Ireland, is a qualified Sports Scientist graduate at the University of Wales, Cardiff and qualified UEFA Football Coach from the Irish Football Association. At the moment he lives with his girlfriend in Barcelona-Spain and works there as a football coach at the Hristo Stoichkov football school and also as an English teacher. He loves Manchester United, and is looking forward to breaking Liverpool’s record of League wins in the not too distant future. He loves to travel and has seen most of the world but always wants to see more. In his spare time, he likes to improve his Spanish and catalan, play football, go to the gym, play guitar, watch films, read and have the odd game of pro evolution and pool. He likes to write about something he loves, and has a blog where he writes about all things current, including footy and travel: http://thedrawertailor.blogspot.com/ . You can also follow him on twitter @Rodneyball.
Jennifer Juneau
Jennifer Juneau is a writer from New York City living in Switzerland. Her published work has appeared in many magazines such as the American Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Evergreen Review, Pank Magazine, Passages North, Portland Review, Seattle Review and so forth. She has received two awards for her writing. Although most of her published work is literary, she watches European football matches regularly and has a great passion for this beautiful sport. Her graduate studies at the University of Zurich in linguistics, theory and criticism have enabled her to marry her passions for literary analysis and European football and to write it poetically.
Preben Gietz
Born and raised in Germany and Belgium, I have played soccer at a competitive level my entire life. For just as long, I have been an avid follower of the sport. As a kid I was a season ticket holder at RSC Anderlecht, where I was fortunate enough to witness Real Madrid’s Galacticos and other great teams in the Champions League. I have also acquired a soft spot for US soccer while playing in college. Now I’m a European-based freelance soccer writer.
Manuel Traquete
Manuel is a writer from Portugal who has always loved sports and football in particular. In Portugal, he supports Sporting Clube de Portugal while his favorite European team is Barcelona. In the summer of 2010, he decided to try his luck at online sportswriting and fortunately it has been very successful, which led him to become Barcelona’s Featured Writer for 90Soccer. He is currently in the first year of college, where He is studying law. Still, a carrer in sports journalism is pretty much on the cards.
Paul Douglas Grant
Paul Douglas Grant is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University. The translator of Serge Daney’s Postcards from the Cinema, he is a frequent contributor to Senses of Cinema and Film International as well as a number of football related blogs. He’s having a hard time finishing his dissertation on militant French film collectives from the 70s all because of Arsenal, Olympique Lyonnais, AJ Auxerre, Atletico Independiente, So Foot, France Football, and When Saturday Comes. Paul lives near Lyon with his wife and two kids.
James Cox
James Cox is a second year Journalism student at University College Falmouth in England, he has loved soccer since he was very young as has played all his life for local teams and schools, his favorite team is Liverpool. After James graduates he hopes to go in to sport journalism.
Daniel Flaherty
Daniel Flaherty is an Irish writer currently based in Rostock, Germany. He is a German and Economics graduate from the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, near Dublin. Daniel has written from an early age, and has won various academic and writing awards in Ireland. He is also big football fan, having played and watched football from an early age. He likens his footballing style to “a David Beckham type, without the crossing ability”. His favourite team is Aston Villa, a source of much torment and heartbreak in Daniel’s short life. Recent developments, he reveals, like the appointment of Gerard Houllier and the 24€ million signing of Darren Bent, have done little to help this. As ever, he lives in hope.
Eike Zwicker
Eike is a 22 years old sports management student in Hannover, Germany. He is very interested in every kind of sport in connection with a ball, especially soccer, tennis and basketball (NBA).
As a side job he works for Hannover 96 a Bundesliga club. Eike’s career aim is to lead a professional sports club as a management or marketing director.
At present he is looking for an internship in the United States from February to July 2011.
Heiko Lütkehus
Heiko Lütkehus is a 22-year old student from Hannover, Germany. He spent more than 15 years for playing soccer as well as for training the young players from his home area in the northwest of Germany. Besides his passion for soccer, he studies sports management in order to be well-prepared for working in the professional sports media section. He covers his favorite team Werder Bremen and is also interested in nearly every First League in Europe. Throughout his work for 90soccer.com, Heiko aspires to build up connections to soccer fans all over Europe and the US to benefit from the knowledge of experts.
Sam Lee
Sam Lee is a 22-year-old Sport Journalism graduate from the University of Central Lancashire. Currently working part-time for the BBC on their Football League coverage, Sam also runs his own European football blog and contributes to several other online publications. He fills the rest of his time learning Spanish with a view to working as a writer in either Madrid or Buenos Aires, and will be travelling South America next year.
Aside from football, Sam enjoys cricket, golf and Formula 1, but leaves the writing to the experts.
You can follow his musings on twitter @sammyleebbc.
Sam’s blog: http://picklestheworldcupblog.wordpress.com/
Robert Morris
Rob is a 21 year old Media Studies graduate. As a lifelong Arsenal fan, Rob has seen the good, the bad and the Manuel Almunia, all grace the North London side. The biggest game Rob has attended was a Champions League semi-final against Manchester United at Old Trafford in 2009 where his side didn’t strike a single shot on goal. He’s still bitter about it!
He also writes a film blog: retardboy.co.uk
Kieran Lovelock
Kieran is a 22 year old graduate of Xavier University in Cincinnati where he did a degree in English Literature. He currently lives in London and attended Xavier on a golf scholarship and will embark on a masters degree in business management in September 2010. Kieran has been a season ticket holder at Crystal Palace for 15 years and for all his sins has attended around 400 games home and away in the Championship and the Premiership. Out of all his the memories in football the two that stand out the most- one is going watching Crystal Palace beat Liverpool 2-1 in the FA Cup and the second is Palace getting a 2-2 draw away to Sheffield Wednesday on the last day of the 2009/2010 season to ensure that the club remained in business. It was the debacle of his club going into administration that sparked Kieran’s desire to write about issues surrounding soccer and he takes a keen interest in the way in which football clubs are run by their owners and to build a club from the ground up. Kieran prefers to take a simple and uncompromising view on the game of soccer and you may find that you will either strongly agree or disagree with what he has to say!
Christopher Boulay
Chris is a soccer journalist based in New Haven, CT and currently a student at Central Connecticut State University, where he majors in journalism and minors in History. He has been a soccer fan his whole life, but did not find his place in the soccer world until he saw his beloved Liverpool F.C. play Celtic F.C. in Hartford in 2004. A diehard US National Team supporter, his MLS club will be the Montreal Impact when they join up in 2012. Chris is currently the Aston Villa contributor for 90:00 soccer. He has covered soccer extensively at the NCAA level and has been published on various soccer news websites including Goal.com. Once graduated in December, he plans to pursue his soccer journalism passion as a career. You can read all of his articles and thoughts on the beautiful game at http://www.twitter.com/chrismboulay.
Callum McCarthy
Callum McCarthy is a football and ice hockey writer from London, UK. After considering university offers, Callum decided to put his degree on the back burner in favour of building his reputation as a writer and blogger in the USA and Canada. After making waves as an ice hockey writer, Callum is now writing about the sport of his homeland for 90 Minutes Soccer.
In his spare time, Callum can be found playing cricket for his local village side and leaving a trail of failed debauchery around London and its surrounding areas.
You can find his ramblings at http://crushasaurus.tumblr.com (ice hockey) and http://routeone.tumblr.com (football), and you can follow his shorter ramblings on Twitter (http://twitter.com/crushasaurus)
Pete Herrnreiter
Peter is a 2007 graduate of St. Norbert College, with dual degrees in foreign affairs and German. Currently he is working full-time as an international business consultant while following his passion for soccer during the evenings (and of course weekends). His long terms goals are to be an established entrepreneur with the ultimate aim of owning a professional soccer club.
Petar Todorovski
Petar Todorovski is 23 years old and currently near the end of Master studies of Crime law on the St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Now Petar is a freelance writer before entering into lawyer’s world. He is a passionate soccer fan since young age. He has played in amateur division in Macedonian league for his local club, but now he just dreams about the day when Macedonia makes debut on the World Cup. His favorite teams are Bayern Munich and Chelsea, because their tough mentality. Despite soccer he enjoys Formula 1 races.
James Goyder
James Goyder is a free lance football journalist from the UK. He specializes in European football and his articles have appeared in a variety of newspapers, websites and magazines including ESPN, Star Sports, Fox Sports, The Guardian, Manila Standard Today, Football Weekly (Singapore) and The New Paper (Singapore).
He also writes regularly about MMA and boxing.
For more information visit: www.jamesgoyder.com.
To keep up to date with all his sporting articles follow him on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jamesgoyder.
Gareth Hopkins
At Chester University Gareth studied within the Chester Centre for Research in to Sport and Society (CCRSS) – here he received a Masters Degree (MSc) in the Sociology of Sport and Exercise. Whilst at University Gareth has developed a comprehensive understanding of sport and unique writing angle which is applied to much of his work. Furthermore, Gareth won the National Cup with Chester University in 2003 and has played semi-professional for a number of seasons in England. With extensive playing experience and detailed football knowledge, Gareth is in a great position to offer readers many thought provoking articles.
Katie Grosser
Katie is a 20-year old Communications and Politics student from Münster, Germany. She played soccer for more than six years. While she had to give it up when she went to college, she still follows the Bundesliga. Although she has American citizenship, she doesn’t really like American football (too complicated) or baseball (too boring). Basketball’s okay. Katie writes for various German and American publications, including “The Atlantic Times” and “The Tattoo”. Currently, she is spending a semester abroad at the University of Exeter, in England, and will return to Münster next year to finish up her Bachelor’s degree.
E-Mail Address: kmgrosser@aol.com
Ricardo Galvão
Ricardo is a profesional cartoonist since 1992 when he joined portuguese sports newspaper “A Bola”. In that same year he went to Universidade Católica Portuguesa to get a degree in economics. He got it in 1997 but what started as a part-time job as a cartoonist soon became a full-time one. From all the years studying to become the next Nobel Prize in Economics he keeps a nice diploma somewhere in the basement. So, when people ask him if he studied to become a cartoonist, he says yes. Almost twenty years.
