Update At the age of 81 last night in Amsterdam’s famous football commentator Hugo Walker deceased. The Amsterdam was in the seventies, eighties and nineties of the last century with Theo Reitsma and Evert ten Napel the main voice of NOS Studio Sport.
Walker himself was an outstanding sportsman. If baseball ABC Ajax and he pulled even Dutch team. He also played for Ajax. In the late sixties he became a reporter for Sports in Picture, the forerunner of ESPN. As a commentator Walker even had a fan club, “Is that shot ‘named after one of his most memorable observations. Walker was also known for “keepertje, keepertje ‘and’ good shot, ditto rescue.
Hugo Walker was reporter during his career also one of the founders of advertising magazine Adformatie.
Former colleague Kees Jansma Walker calls a legend. ,, He was a man of original statements, which still survive. He had an original choice of words, an original sound, he was a lover of the game and expressed in short, powerful terms. As one commentator years after his last work survives, he left something behind. How people respond now, that says enough. ”
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