Adrian Healey is an English football commentator

Sports commentator

In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

, currently working with ESPN

ESPN

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 with their broadcasts of the MLS

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...

, Barclays Premier League, Primera Liga and Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

. He was part of the ESPN commentary team in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup

2010 FIFA World Cup

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. He has also been a fill in host for Derek Rae

Derek Rae

Derek Rae is a Scottish football announcer for ESPN, working as a sports commentator for its coverage of the UEFA Champions League and Scottish Premier League. He is also the host of ESPNsoccernet's PressPass.- Career :...

 on ESPN's Soccernet PressPass

PressPass

ESPNsoccernet PressPass is a 30 minute show which airs Monday to Friday and is a soccer discussion show between presenters Adrian Healey, Dan Thomas, Andrew Orsatti and analysts including Robbie Mustoe, Gabriele Marcotti, Tommy Smyth, Janusz Michallik, Shaka Hislop, Robbie Earle, Steve Nicol,...

.

Broadcasting career

Healey started work in the USA in Boston as a mid day DJ on WFNX

WFNX

WFNX is a New England commercial alternative rock radio station. The station began broadcasting on Monday, April 11, 1983. It was one of the first American commercial stations to play alternative rock and has become a leading radio station for breaking new alternative music.WFNX broadcasts on 101.7...

 then WBCN. He then got a TV job commentating for the New England Revolution

New England Revolution

The New England Revolution is an American professional association football club based in Foxborough, Massachusetts which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada...

, replacing the departing Derek Rae. He left the Revolution to join ESPN, where he started with play-by-play commentary with Robbie Mustoe

Robbie Mustoe

Robin "Robbie" Mustoe is a retired English footballer who now works as a commentator for ESPN. He made nearly 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League, playing as a midfielder for Oxford United, Middlesbrough, where he spent the majority of his career, Charlton Athletic and...

 on ESPN2's alternate broadcast of UEFA Champions League

UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

 play.

Healey served as a play by play announcer for NBC Sports

NBC Sports

NBC Sports is the sports division of the NBC television network. Formerly "a service of NBC News," it broadcasts a diverse array of programs, including the Olympic Games, the NFL, the NHL, MLS, Notre Dame football, the PGA Tour, the Triple Crown, and the French Open, among others...

' coverage of soccer at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

He currently serves as lead announcer for ESPN's coverage of Major League Soccer (MLS)

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...

. During the summer

Summer

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 of 2011, he took a break from his MLS duties to work alongside Kate Markgraf

Kate Markgraf

Kate Markgraf , is an American soccer defender and was a member of the U.S. women's national team.-Early life:...

 on the network's secondary broadcast team for the FIFA Women's World Cup telecasts.

Personal life

Healey is from Marlborough in Wiltshire, England. He was educated at St John's High School in Marlborough, turning down a place at the prestigious Marlborough College (an elite private institution) in order to stay with his childhood friends. Healey went on to take a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Studies from 1984-88 at the City of Birmingham University. Whilst he was at university, Healey was the creative force behind cult gothic band Children on Stun, which played many small venues in the Midlands area of the UK from 1984-88. His former student residence on City Rd in the Bearwood district of Birmingham has become something of a site of pilgrimage for former fans.

Healey is a Swindon Town fan. Swindon Town are currently in League 2 of the Football League in the UK, which is the lowest division of English football.

Healey currently lives in West Hartford, Connecticut with his wife and two children.