The Sun signs Kyle Walker for his World Cup coverage
The Sun is delighted to announce that former Manchester City and England star Kyle Walker has signed for the primary World Cup workforce.
The 96-times capped defender will probably be giving SunSport’s audiences his distinctive perception and tactical experience, gained from his unequalled expertise of enjoying in three Euros and two World Cups for the Three Lions.
Kyle Walker’s appearances will span The Sun’s totally different platforms with particular contributions to our Sun Originals video franchises, print and digital columns, and digital-first social video content material. The Sun is the one newspaper model with unique rights to Kyle for the period of the 2026 World Cup.
Over the final yr SunSport has vastly expanded its soccer providing with Sun Originals video codecs Tactics Exposed and Team Talk, which have achieved sponsorship and reached new audiences, driving hundreds of thousands of views. Both reveals are again for the World Cup in addition to two model new reveals commissioned for the match, together with Proper Football Daily and Ones To Watch. These new reveals launch quickly and have each additionally picked up model sponsorship.
Our ever common World Cup Preview present will probably be staged stay on the News Building on June 1 that includes Kyle, managerial legend Harry Redknapp, and Scotland nice Gordon Strachan, alongside The Sun’s Director of Sport Shaun Custis, for an in-person fan occasion. Tickets for that occasion will probably be completely for SunMembership subscribers.
Victoria Newton, Editor-in-Chief of The Sun says: “We are thrilled to welcome Kyle Walker to the SunSport family. We have massive plans for the World Cup and having one of the most decorated players in the English game join us so soon after his international retirement, is a massive coup. Kyle knows this squad and the pressures on the England team in a World Cup better than anyone. Our readers are getting the ultimate insider’s view as England chases football’s greatest prize.”
Kyle Walker says: “I’m excited to be signing as a World Cup columnist for The Sun this summer time.
The World Cup is the largest stage in soccer and, having skilled it as a participant, I do know precisely what the stress, emotion and pleasure of the match appears like. I’m wanting ahead to sharing that perception with readers and viewers all through the competitors.
This will probably be my first main match from the opposite facet of the sport, which is one thing I’m actually enthusiastic about, and The Sun has one of many largest and most passionate soccer audiences round throughout main tournaments.
Nothing will ever examine to representing your nation at a World Cup, however I’m wanting ahead to staying near the motion and hopefully bringing followers trustworthy evaluation and a perspective solely somebody who’s lived these moments may give.”