Георгий Черданцев

Georgy Cherdantsev

Sports commentator, TV and radio presenter

Born February 1, 1971 in Moscow. Since 1982 to 1989 he played in Moscow football championship among the clubs of Spartak-2, but was forced to finish his football career due to a knee injury. He graduated from the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology Faculty of Moscow State University in 1992. Specialty translator and English teacher. He speaks also Italian. After graduation he worked in the legal department in a bank, a loader in a warehouse in Istanbul, in the tourist company.

Works on television since 1996 this year Georgy was employed created television NTV Plus. He started in the position of interpreter, then began to sound small stories, reports, football championships reviews. He was a correspondent for the program Football Club of Vasily Utkin. As a reporter for preparing reports for the issues under the title football club in the World Cup 1998. Commented first football game dates back to 1998 - a record broadcast World Cup games in France between the national teams of Italy and Norway.

Since 2004 to 2007 he worked as a press attaché of the Russian Premier League.

In August 2013 he was appointed head of the TV channel Sport Plus. On the same channel in 2014 he held Olympic Channel from Sochi in tandem with the leading radio Sport FM Sofya Tartakova, which at that time was acting presenter.

Mostly commented matches Serie A. Also he worked as a commentator for the World and European championships. Commented three UEFA Champions League — in 2003, 2007 and 2015.

In April 2015 AST publishing house has published a book of Cherdantsev Notes football commentator.

Since 2015 — columnist Russian version of EA Sports FIFA 16 (together with Konstantin Genich).