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John Strong is an American television play-by-play broadcaster who is the lead Major League Soccer voice for Fox Sports. 〔http://worldsoccertalk.com/2015/01/22/fox-sports-hires-john-strong-as-commentator-to-strengthen-its-soccer-coverage//ref>〕 His work has appeared on NBC, FOX, ESPN among other networks. Strong is a former radio host on 750-AM "The Game" in Portland, Oregon and was the radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Portland Timbers Major League Soccer team. ==Broadcasting career== Strong began his broadcasting career while in high school at Lake Oswego High School, where he founded Laker Broadcasting.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Laker Broadcasting: About Us )〕 Strong created audio broadcasts of LOHS football and basketball games beginning in 2002. While attending School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, Strong worked at 750 KXL in Portland and was active at Oregon's campus station, KWVA. Strong continued his play-by-play work by broadcasting University of Oregon women's soccer,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Salem-News )〕 softball,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Salem-News )〕 and women's lacrosse. He also served as play-by-play voice for the Eugene Generals Junior Hockey team in 2005-06. Strong's first full-time broadcast job came at Portland's KXL radio and, later, 750 AM "The Game" in 2008. Strong produced "The Bald Faced Truth" radio show and also hosted a daily evening radio show called "Strong at Night" for the station. In 2010, Strong appeared on FSN Northwest as a play-by-play announcer for the Portland Timbers and in 2011 became the regular play-by-play announcer for Timbers broadcasts.〔 Strong was a regular commentator on Europa League games for Fox Soccer, notably calling the 2013 Europa League final between Chelsea and Benfica. After the 2012-2013 season Strong moved to NBC Sports to cover Major League Soccer and English Premier League football. Following NBC's loss of Major League Soccer coverage to Fox Sports in 2014, it was announced that Strong was moving full time to Fox Sports to head the Major League Soccer, and Women's World Cup coverage. Strong was previously working part time for Fox when he was not obligated to his NBC duties. In 2015, Strong also began to serve as the lead play-by-play voice for most United States men's national soccer team matches broadcast on Fox or Fox Sports 1, because of a new new television contract between U.S. Soccer, Fox Sports, and ESPN. Alexi Lalas joins Strong as the lead analyst for these matches.〔http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/story/john-strong-joins-fox-sports-exclusively-as-play-by-play-announcer-012215〕 Strong's signature calls are "45 minutes down, 45 to go" at the end of every half and "This one finishes (final scoreline)" at the completion of every game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Strong (sportscaster)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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