{"id":4513,"date":"2026-06-18T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:08:00","slug":"john-strong-and-stuart-holden-working-a-busy-schedule-as-lead-broadcasters-to-start-their-third-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"John Strong and Stuart Holden working a busy schedule as lead broadcasters to start their third World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>John Strong and Stuart Holden have become the soundtrack for the FIFA Men\u2019s World Cup as the Fox Sports\u2019 No. 1 broadcast team.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=4511\">Daily Horoscope for June 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The duo first started working together in Russia at the 2018 World Cup. Now, they\u2019re attacking their third World Cup together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never take for granted the opportunity that we have and sometimes it doesn\u2019t honestly set in that we\u2019re going to be the lead team for our third straight World Cup,\u201d Holden said before this year\u2019s tournament began. \u201cWe were kids at 32 years old. We\u2019re both 40 years old right now heading into this and it\u2019s still young compared to broadcasting duos in other sports, let alone the fact that I get to do it with my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of surreal for me to be a voice now of a tournament that I played in. Unlike John, I didn\u2019t grow up dreaming of being a broadcaster. It\u2019s something that has found me and that I have found and it\u2019s something that I want to do until, to steal a word from Alexi Lalas, somebody pries it from cold dead hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They have been on a whirlwind of a schedule to open this year\u2019s tournament. They started at the USMNT\u2019s opener against Paraguay, last Friday, then caught a red-eye right after the match to get to New Jersey for Saturday\u2019s Brazil-Morocco game. After Saturday, they headed to Atlanta for Monday\u2019s Spain-Cape Verde matchup and then to Kansas City for the defending champion Argentina\u2019s opening game against Algeria, followed by a trip to Dallas for England\u2019s opener against Croatia Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, they have Thursday off, allowing them to get to Seattle for the USMNT\u2019s second group stage game against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a job I love and I\u2019m incredibly motivated by,\u201d Holden said. \u201cThe weirdest moment for me was coming back from the World Cup in Russia, for my first time doing a big tournament as the lead and my daughter, was like 3 years old at the time and we\u2019re in the grocery story, she runs away from me on the other aisle and I kind of yelled at her and somebody popped their head around and they\u2019re like, \u2018Dude, you\u2019re the guy who called the World Cup final!\u2019 and that was the first time somebody had recognized me purely for my voice and I realized the impact and as I said, the opportunity and the responsibility you have calling these games and it was that shift in my mentality from, I\u2019m no longer and athlete, I\u2019m a broadcaster. I\u2019m a TV guy now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=4510\">New Magic coach Sean Sweeney starting to build first coaching staff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pair have already been on the call for a pair of high-rating events in the week alone. First, the USMNT\u2019s opener drew more than 18 million viewers, according to Fox Sports, making it the most-watched FIFA Men\u2019s World Cup telecast, and the Brazil-Morocco game pulled in 10,019,000 viewers to become the most-watched non-USMNT World Cup group stage game.<\/p>\n<p> <!--Ad-Slot: outstream_video--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can say with complete certainty is there\u2019s no two people to whom this means more, and there\u2019s no two people who have worked harder to do the best job possible this next month,\u201d Strong said.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas Holden made the transition from playing, after a career at Sunderland, Bolton and the Houston Dynamo, Strong\u2019s career path was to become a broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always described it as two parallel paths,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was the one path where being a play-by-play sports broadcaster, the only job I\u2019ve ever wanted to have from a time when I was too young to understand why or what that meant or how to get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen the other path was sort of being exposed to soccer from a young age in a lot of ways and for a lot of reasons, I didn\u2019t quite understand until I was much older. \u2026 I watched (the) \u201994 World Cup, I watched 1998, I lived 2002 and by that point, I was already all in on that\u2019s what I wanted to do. This is the opportunity and the privilege and the responsibility that I have been given because outside of my family, nothing is more important to me in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <!--Ad-Slot: cube_article--><\/p>\n<p>Holden added that there is added pressure being the lead broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a weird balance of pressure,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have a great responsibility, your voice is going out to millions, your bosses have invested in you and invested in us, as a pairing, but then at the same time, just enjoying the moment. This is something I said to John a couple of weeks ago, I want to go into this and not try to overdo it, not worry about the prep, let the games be the games, have the confidence in the work that we have done as a duo and as a pairing and always knowing that we can fall back on each other. The biggest thing I\u2019ve learned about this job, is it\u2019s not me, it\u2019s not him, it\u2019s us and those are the things that make the best partnerships in sports broadcasting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=4508\">Universal: \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 returning to Halloween Horror Nights<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Strong and Stuart Holden are working their third FIFA Men&#8217;s World Cup together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Strong and Stuart Holden working a busy schedule as lead broadcasters to start their third World Cup - 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