Alexander Elagin (commentator): biography

Football commentator Alexander Elagin - a man in many ways unordinary. Before joining sports journalism, he managed to work as a janitor, advertiser and even an actor. Today Elagin is a commentator with a loud name, the voice of a generation that grew up in the late nineties and early 2000s.

early years

Alexander Viktorovich was born in Moscow in 1953. He studied at the international department of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, which allowed him to travel in Europe, unlike most Soviet citizens, in the future. It is clear that the list of countries was strictly regulated, therefore Elagin had to work only in Czechoslovakia. There he stayed four years, and then again returned to the USSR.

Theater

In the theater, Elagin tried himself in school days. At the age of 22 he began to work under the direction of the director Roman Viktyuk. Elagin calls him his teacher, who made him a real actor. Comfortable and well-paid work in the Union of Friendship Societies, through which Alexander Viktorovich and left earlier for Czechoslovakia, he preferred a theater studio with a salary of 150 rubles. It was a colossal theater boom of the mid-eighties and yelagin pulled out of Prague, where his boss was Valentina Tereshkova.

REN-TV, 7-TV, NTV-PLUS

In the troubled nineties Alexander Elagin managed to work both as a leading sports news channel on the "2x2" channel and as an advertiser on the radio station "Echo of Moscow". Since 1996, Elagin - commentator of the matches of the English Premier League at REN-TV. His professional debut was a match at the Super Bowl of England, where "Newcastle" beat Manchester United with a score of 5: 0. Since then, in the minds of many Russian football fans, Alexander Elagin, the commentator then quite new and not very experienced, has become associated with the Foggy Albion.

Yelagin had to finish his theatrical career. In the nineties, the theater paid insignificantly, and the atmosphere itself changed dramatically not for the better. Professional disagreements began with colleagues in the shop, problems of mutual understanding.

After leaving REN-TV Elagin - commentator is already on the channel 7-TV. The profile remains the same - the English Premier League. He combines the commentary activities, working as the host of the program "Football Chronicle".

On 7-TV, Alexander Elagin worked until 2009, until the TV channel finally re-qualified for entertainment.

The next six years Elagin - commentator on the big sports channel "NTV-Plus", where he was called by Vasily Utkin.

"Match TV", "Eurosport"

After the creation of the large sports holding "Match" in 2015, the whole commentator headquarters of NTV-Plus was disbanded. Most journalists continued to work on the "Match", others, like Vasily Utkin or Vladimir Stognienko, went to other channels. Today Elagin is a commentator on Match, but a freelance, working on a fee basis. He still remains the main voice of the English championship. Very few commentators can compare with him in the knowledge of the history of British football, as well as all the context surrounding the English championship.

To the role of a freelance worker, Aleksandr Viktorovich is stoic and even seeks advantages in this. One of them is the possibility of combining. Since the summer of 2016 Elagin - commentator (photo above) on the channel "Eurosport". There he pleases the spectator, working on the matches of Championships - the second most important English division.

Hobbies

Alexander Elagin is a real esthete. In addition to the theater, he is interested in classical music: Wagner, Rossini, Mozart, Tchaikovsky. While in Prague, he and his wife visited the Wagner opera, which lasted six hours. He is also a big fan of Mark Bernes - one of the main representatives of the Soviet stage of the 40-50s.