Earlier this year, Fox announced that Rob Stone and Sky Sports’ Kate Abdo would be studio hosts for the FIFA Women’s World Cup which begins next month in Vancouver. We now know who will join Stone and Abdo next month. Fox recently unveiled its studio analysts who we will see throughout the month-long tournament in Canada.
Here are the names who will be part of the studio crew:
- Monica Gonzalez
- Ariane Hingst
- Angela Hucles
- Alexi Lalas
- Christine Latham
- Dr. Joe Machnik
- Heather Mitts
- Leslie Osbourne
- Kelly Smith
- Eric Wynalda
Lalas and Wynalda are familiar to viewers as both have been on Fox’s FA Cup, UEFA Champions League and US Men’s National Team friendlies this year. And Lalas was on ESPN’s coverage for several years.
Hucles was part of Fox’s coverage of the 2014 CONCACAF World Cup qualifying tournament and she twice was on the USWNT team that won gold medals in the Summer Olympics.
Mitts was on the U.S. Women’s National Team as a three-time Olympian and was on the 2011 squad that lost in the WWC Final to Japan. Mitts has previously worked for ESPN and has been on Fox’s coverage leading up to this year’s World Cup.
Gonzalez worked on ESPN’s WWC coverage in 2011 and will join Fox this year. She was on the Mexico National Team that played in the 1999 Women’s World Cup in the United States.
Joining Fox for the World Cup are Hingst, who was a member of the German squad that won the Women’s World Cup in 2003 and again in ’07; Latham who was on the Canadian women’s team; Osbourne, another former member of the USWNT; and Smith who’s considered to be the greatest women’s player in England and has played professionally in the U.S.
Dr. Machnik who was a FIFA Match Commissioner will be a rules analyst.
Fox will unveil game announcing teams at a later date.
Fox’s Women’s World Cup coverage begins on June 6 and will run all the way through to the Finals on July 5.
