Tim Vickery

Tim Vickery
Born May 25, 1965 (1965-05-25) (age 46)
Occupation Football journalist
Years active 1994-

Tim Vickery (born 25 May 1965) is an English football journalist who has lived in Brazil since 1994.[1][2] He currently serves as the South American football correspondent for the BBC, writing a weekly column for the corporation online.[3] Vickery frequently writes for World Soccer and Sports Illustrated.[4]

He is perhaps best known for his work on The World Football Phone-in,[5] which airs weekly as part of Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live on Saturday mornings.[6] On the show Vickery is known as the 'Legendinho' or 'Vikipedia' for his vast knowledge of Brazilian football.

As of 2008, Tim Vickery is South American correspondent for World Soccer Daily continues his role on World Football Daily, the video podcast that replaced WSD. Since May 2011, he published weekly news on Sambafoot.com website.[7] He occasionally appears on football discussion programmes on the Brazilian television channel SporTV. [8]

References

  1. ^ "The Tim Vickery Interview- The Answers are In !!!". CrickeTime. http://www.cricketime.com/showthread.php?t=7772. Retrieved 2010-09-05. 
  2. ^ "Blog Archive ยป Tim Vickery on Brazilian Soccer". Culture of Soccer. 2007-11-12. http://cultureofsoccer.com/2007/11/12/tim-vickery-on-brazilian-soccer/. Retrieved 2010-09-05. 
  3. ^ "Tim Vickery". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/timvickery/tim_vickery/. Retrieved 2010-09-05. 
  4. ^ "World Soccer Brazil Dispatches". Worldsoccer.com. http://www.worldsoccer.com/dispatches/brazilindex.php. Retrieved 2010-09-05. 
  5. ^ "Podcasts - 5 live's World Football Phone-in". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/wf/. Retrieved 2010-09-05. 
  6. ^ "Radio 5 live Programmes - Up All Night". BBC. 2010-08-30. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070h86. Retrieved 2010-09-05. 
  7. ^ "Brazil is not for beginners". Sambafoot.com. 2011-05-14. http://www.sambafoot.com/en/news/19782_brazil_is_not_for_beginners.html. Retrieved 2011-05-14. 
  8. ^ Vickery, Tim. "Brazil is not for beginners". Article. Sambafoot. http://www.sambafoot.com/en/news/19782_brazil_is_not_for_beginners.html. Retrieved 13 December 2011. 

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