What They're Saying: David Neal

• by Soccer America , Apr 25, 2018

“There’s no question that we did this deliberately, and the message is that we have an abundance of outstanding American play-by-play voices and frankly it would make no sense not to avail ourselves of that. It’s as solid a group of American voices as have ever been collected for a World Cup.”

-- David Neal, executive producer of Fox Sports’ 2018 World Cup coverage, on the eight match commentators (out of 12) who will be American. In 2014, ESPN used five British announcers and Salvadoran-born Fernando Palomo to handle play-by-play. (AP)