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Christian Gonzalo Martin (born: October 10, 1971) is a sports journalist, former Argentine rugby player in London, England since 1994. He currently works as one of the European correspondents on ESPN Argentina and LN+, in addition to being a streamer. on Twitch;
Biography[]
Beginings[]
Of Welsh descent, Martin was born in San Isidro in 1971, to a curator father and a teacher mother. He lived his first years in Argentina, where he started a newspaper at the age of six and, later, studied media at the Universidad del Salvador, while working in the newspaper Página Norte. At the same time, he began a career as a rugby player at CASI, a club in whose first division he made his debut at the age of eighteen.
He formed the Argentine rugby team, although the sport discipline at that time had not yet been professionalized. He decided to leave Argentina in 1994, when he was invited to play for a French club while on tour with the national team. In France, he played for the Brive and Tulle clubs. Shortly after, he moved to Wales to play there, and after finishing his contract with the club, he decided to stay in England, where he signed a contract with the professional club Saracens.
career in journalism[]
In 2006 he decided to retire from rugby to dedicate himself to television, linking up with media such as the BBC, the Octagon agency and the Latin American channel Fox Sports. For this channel he has covered important sporting events such as the Premier League, the Champions League, the UEFA Europa League and the 2018 World Cup in Russia, among many others.
At the beginning of 2019, he covered for 19 days the accident that took the life of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala, whose plane crashed into the sea near the English Channel. Martin's exhaustive work covering this event was praised. by different international media. From March 2020 he began to cover news related to the COVID-19 pandemic for the Argentine television channels A24 and América TV, making appearances on the Eduardo Feinmann program together with fellow journalist Adrián Sack and the international analyst Gustavo Segré.
In March 2021, he went to the LN + channel, of the newspaper La Nación, currently working there.
Trivia[]
- On his Twitch streams, he often calls some users Bobis or Bobinas because they often ask useless or suggestive questions.
- He has been married to his wife Helen and has two children named Teddy and Victoria.
- Some channels tend to reupload direct theirs.
- He has been the target of criticism in several Argentine media.
- He has been at the home of several soccer players, including Emiliano Martinez (accompanied by Hector Bellerin) and Lionel Scaloni (accompanied by Fernando Muslera).
- He has done live shows with streamer and YouTuber Momo.
- He hates talking about politics.
- He doesn't like current music (genres like reggaeton or rap) and prefers to listen to rock.