Alison Bender
Alison Bender



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Alison is an experienced broadcast journalist, who currently fronts shows daily for PLTV ( Premier League Television ) which has a huge global audience. She hosts a football call-in show, daily news bulletins, and reports pitchside at Premier League matches conducting post-match interviews with players and managers, and breaking live pre-match team news.

Alison is passionate about football. She has worked at Real Madrid TV and Chelsea TV for many years, working closely with some of the world’s best footballers and managers. Her role includes reporting at daily training sessions, traveling with the first team to Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League matches, and following the team on pre-season tours and charity trips. She has hosted many live events for the club and presented a variety of live programmes including matchday shows. 

Alison was ESPN’s Champions league reporter between 2007 and 2010 traveling across Europe interviewing players and managers and reporting at matches, she spent 6 weeks in New York presenting ESPN’s World Cup show Press Pass during the 2010 World Cup. 

She freelances for several global channels including Astro SuperSport in Malaysia, and Fox Soccer in the USA, where she delivers live match reports and Premier League news updates. 

In the UK, Alison can be seen on ESPN UK, ITV and the BBC. She reported at the 2012 FA Cup final for ESPN, and hosted the 2012 Africa Cup of nations on ITV4. Her post-match interviews can be heard on Football Focus.  

Alison has worked in a variety of sports- presenting on Sky Sports News, Golfing World, and anchoring Al Jazeera’s sports coverage. Other presenting roles include light entertainment programmes, paper reviews, kids shows, and internet updates for Yahoo.

Alison has a production background, before her presenting and reporting work, she was a TV producer at CNBC Europe and re-located to Spain to set up Real Madrid TV’s English language version of the Spanish channel.

With a first class book of contacts, Alison has broken many exclusives in a range of sports. From ad-libbing, to reading autocue, Alison has a natural ability in front of the camera and injects the same enthusiasm and passion whether she is presenting a World Cup Final or a grass roots match. 

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