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Rory Smith is a journalist, broadcaster and author. He is the chief soccer correspondent of The New York Times, having taken up the role in 2016.[1][2] Smith is a former journalist of The Times,[3] The Independent, and The Daily Telegraph,[4]

Career

Smith was ghostwriter on the book Champions League Dreams with Rafa Benitez published in 2012.[5][6] Smith’s 2016 book Mister: The Men Who Gave The World The Game was short listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.[7][8][9][10] ‘Mister’ was included in the best 50 football books ever written in a list compiled by FourFourTwo magazine.[11]

In 2022 Smith published the book Expected Goals: The Story of how Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever.[12]

A frequent guest on BBC Radio Five Live[13][14][15][16] Smith has also written for ESPN,[17] The Blizzard[18] and FourFourTwo.[19] He has appeared on the Second Captains podcast,[20] often on The Anfield Wrap,[21][22] and The Totally Football Show as well as recording his own weekly Set Piece Menu podcast with Hugh Ferris, football commentator Steven Wyeth and former England international Andy Hinchcliffe.[23][24][25] Television appearances include Sky Sports Sunday Supplement.[26]

Awards

In 2015 he was highly commended by the Sports Journalists' Association[27] He was nominated for writer of the year at the 2013,[28] 2015,[29] 2017 and 2019 Football Supporters Federation Awards,[30] winning in 2015 [31] and 2019.[32] Set Piece Menu Podcast was nominated in the ‘Podcast of the Year’ category at the 2018 Football Supporters Federation Awards,[33] as well as shortlisted for the Podcast of the Year at the Football Supporters' Association awards in 2020 and 2021.[34][35]

Personal life

Rory Smith is from Yorkshire.

References

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