Legendary La Liga Announcer Ray Hudson Announces Retirement Ray Hudson announced his retirement from broadcasting at 70 years old. Sports Illustrated · Sep 9, 2025
‘Freddy Adu was just like Messi’: what happened to America’s Pelé? At 14, the wonderkid became the highest paid player in MLS and youngest-ever USMNT player. His career was ultimately defined by hype and disappointment The Guardian - US · Feb 14, 2024
Announcer Ray Hudson went absolutely wild after Lionel Messi’s magical game-tying pass "HE DOESN'T PULL RABBITS OUT OF HIS MAGIC HAT, HE PULLS KANGAROOS!" USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 24, 2023
How Lionel Messi went from the tiniest boy on the field to the biggest athlete in the world MIAMI — Long before Lionel Messi was a larger-than-life soccer icon with 468 million Instagram followers, before he became one of the world’s richest athletes and immortalized on giant murals from Buenos Aires to Barcelona to Calcutta to Miami, he was the tiniest boy on the field at Grandoli, the… Miami Herald · Jul 15, 2023
Greg Cote: Pelé, ‘king of the beautiful game,’ touched the world and left mark on South Florida, too His given name was a handful. Miami Herald · Dec 29, 2022
Greg Cote: Messi’s World Cup triumph leaves America his last frontier to conquer as Inter Miami waits For Argentina’s triumph and Lionel Messi’s ethereal foot in it, there is only one word, and we use it with a nod to the great Ray Hudson: Magisterial! Miami Herald · Dec 20, 2022
Hotel-based fireworks adding to the Tottenham narrative set-up In today’s Fiver: Tottenham, fireworks and more The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2022
Ray Hudson: ‘I was in love with America before I even came to the United States’ The magisterial football commentator opens up about his long, strange American trip and the steady rise of soccer in the United States The Guardian - US · Nov 1, 2022