Craig
Foster
Speaker Profile
Craig Foster is one of Australia's most recognisable sports commentators and a highly respected voice in the fastest growing sport in the country, football.
Craig is the face of SBS Television's UEFA Champions League coverage, veteran broadcaster of three FIFA World Cups and leading member of The World Game, Australia's most popular weekly football show.
He has also anchored the network's 2008 Beijing Olympics coverage, is the lead sports presenter on World News Australia, a respected and forthright football columnist with the Sun Herald, author of Fozz on Football – where he expands on his vision for Australia to one day win the FIFA World Cup - and Australia's sole judge for the prestigious Ballon d'Or for world footballer of the year, awarded jointly by FIFA and France Football magazine.
Life member and formerly Chief Executive of Professional Footballers Australia, the representative body of professional players, in which capacity he delivered the 2006 Collective Bargaining Agreement for the Australian National Team, Craig's playing career included 29 international appearances for the Socceroos, along with professional contracts in the National Soccer League and with Portsmouth FC and as Club Captain of Crystal Palace in England.
Aside from his burgeoning media commitments, Craig is an Ambassador for the Australia Day Council, Barnardo's Children's Charity, The Homeless World Cup, The Big Issue Street Soccer Program for the homeless, and Football United, a charity for refugee and disadvantaged kids, which is Australia's only member of the FIFA Football For Hope family.
Craig is also a Director of COALAR, The Council on Australia Latin America Relations, under the auspices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Craig has delivered corporate presentations for a very diverse range of organizations from Governmental, such as the ATO senior management on teambuilding and achieving hyper success, to countless multi-nationals including Macquarie Bank, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and Price Waterhouse Coopers. Craig has also been a popular choice at corporate conventions both in Australia and abroad.
Craig is a particular favourite of organisations that wish to debate the merits of the different sports and football codes, as he is well known for standing up for the rights of the world game.
His presentation on the 'Rise of the Roos' which looks inside the cultural change that has brought football to the fore in Australia, is a phenomenal success and he continues to inspire and challenge Australians everywhere to achieve more with their private and corporate lives.
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Client Comments
Client Comments
- Thanks for your time yesterday. It was a great day, made all the better for your involvement. Just wanted to let you know that everyone, and I mean everyone, thought you were fantastic. We snuck the lunchtime speaker onto our feedback form and you received 5 out of 5 from every delegate (even from people who know nothing about soccer). Thanks again! It really is the beautiful game.
Strategic Purchasing - It was again a pleasure to have you with us in Hobart for our gala diner. Supurb insight, intense passion for the game and encyclopedic knowledge. It was amazing to see how you could capture the people in the room, and I'm sure most of them do not remember the food they had!
Areva - Your presentation was captivating and so much more than expected.
Rotary International - Craig was a pleasure to work with, very engaging and passionate and has some great insights around how teamwork can impact on an organisation's culture.
Commonwealth Bank - Craig was great, on time and delivered what was expected. A very good presenter who kept the crowd's attention all the time and his videos were great too.
BEA Systems
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