Do they have to do a tonne of research on each player before the game and how do they recognise players from lesser known nations?
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“Players from lesser known nations” — sounds like you’re maybe talking in the context of soccer and the women’s World Cup here?
Let’s start with the fact that if you’re a sportscaster, you’ve probably watched a ton of the sport you’re broadcasting, so you’ll have a super high baseline of knowledge about the sport.
Broadcast teams have two main roles: the play-by-play person, and the color commentator. The color commentator’s role is to provide insight, while the play-by-play person covers an in-time description of what is happening. The color commentator is in a lot of cases a former player or manager who is hired because of their knowledge of the sport. So it makes sense they’d know who the players are.
The play-by-play person may not have that level of insight, but they usually stick to one or two sports they watch a ton of. They’re more knowledgeable than the average fan. And since it’s a big presentation for their job, they prepare for it like you would for a big presentation at your job. They don’t go in blind — if you don’t know a team well, you study their lineup and try to memorize players’ numbers and names.
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