Eniola Aluko

Football pundit for ITV, BT Sport, Amazon and Fox Sports, host of FIFA’s ‘Play ON’ podcast

A leading football pundit for ITV, BT Sport, Amazon and Fox Sports, covering the biggest international and club competitions.  She has also recently been named as the new host of FIFA’s ‘Play ON’ podcast.

 

Career

In addition to being a standout footballer, representing England over 100 times over 13 years and playing for Great Britani in 2012 London Olympics, she is also an accomplished lawyer, media personality, philanthropist, entrepreneur, best-selling author and now a sports administrator in her role as the first ever Sporing Director for the highest profile women’s team in the world, Angel City FC.

She became the first ever female football pundit to appear on Match of the Day on 28th September 2014 and then went  on to make history as the first female footballer pundit for ITV at the men’s world cup in Russia.  

Eni has served as an ambassador for UN Women UK and a member of footballer’s social change movement, Common Goal.