Hugo Walker deceased – Telegraaf.nl

Amsterdam –

Football Commentator Hugo Walker is deceased Friday at the age of 81. That his former employer NIS confirmed. Exclamations as “keepertje, keepertje ‘,’ good shot, ditto rescue ‘and especially’ does that shot ‘made him legendary

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Walker late sixties was a sports reporter at Sport in Beeld, the forerunner of ESPN. He was one of the most important voices of the sports program. In 2000 he stopped because he was dissatisfied with his role at the European Championship in the Netherlands and Belgium that year. Walker was also a founder of the 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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