Toby Charles

Toby Charles ( * 1940 in Wales ) is a former British football commentator.

Toby Charles was a trained teacher, but dissatisfied with his job situation. In a cricket tour of Devon and Cornwall in 1960 he met a young native of Cologne, which suggested that he move to Cologne. The end of 1960 he arrived there and worked as a teacher for English and sports. In 1962 he successfully applied as a commentator for the English program of Deutsche Welle. In German radio listeners he attained cult status as " England correspondent " of the consignment sports and music of the West German Radio (WDR), in which he in a telephone conversation with the moderators Kurt Grumpy or Dietmar Schott - supposedly - told from England on the results of the British leagues and it regularly gave a weather report from the island. In November 1984 Der Spiegel revealed that Charles never sat in England, but in a studio in Cologne- Marienburg, a few kilometers from WDR. The necessary information he had even worried about the radio station British Forces Broadcasting Service ( BFBS ). His contributions were discontinued immediately and suspended editorial director Grumpy for a short time.

Toby Charles was 1976-1988 Moderator of the football program Soccer Made in Germany by the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The program was broadcast on Saturday week, took an hour and was produced by Deutsche Welle. Then she offered the only way for Americans to watch soccer on television, "and it taught Those same Americans how to pronounce Moenchengladbach " (engl. = "[ ... ] and they taught the same Americans, how to, Mönchengladbach ' pronounce ").

Toby Charles is married for the fourth time. He is a cousin of the Welsh national football team, John and Mel Charles. Today, Charles lives alternately in Wales, Florida and Kerpen.