JP Dellacamera
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Born | John Paul Dellacamera January 11, 1952 Sportscaster |
John Paul "JP" Dellacamera (born January 11, 1952) is an
Early life
Dellacamera grew up in Waltham, Massachusetts and graduated from Waltham High School in 1970. He studied broadcasting at Grahm Junior College and spent much of the 1970s as a minor league hockey announcer. In 1982, he got his start as a soccer announcer with the Pittsburgh Spirit of the Major Indoor Soccer League.[1]
Commentary career
Soccer
In the 1980s, Dellacamera was the
He was ESPN and
His most famous assignments include eight
In 2001, he was the lead play-by-play announcer for the
Dellacamera was the first host of ESPN's PressPass alongside analysts Tommy Smyth and Eddie Mighten. The show airs on ESPN's African, Pacific Rim, and Middle East channels, in addition to ESPN360. Dellacamera has been replaced by Derek Rae, and Mighten has been replaced by Janusz Michallik.
Dellacamera served as the lead play-by-play announcer for
On January 16, 2010, Major League Soccer expansion team Philadelphia Union announced that Dellacamera will do play-by-play for local TV broadcasts during its inaugural season.[6] He called Union matches through the end of their local TV contract after the 2022 season.
In March 2011, Dellacamera left ESPN to join
Starting in 2013, Dellacamera will do play-by-play for the
In 2014, he was a play-by-play commentator for
In 2018, he was a featured commentator alongside Tony Meola on FOX and FS1 for their United States broadcasts of the FIFA World Cup. He also was the 2018 recipient of the National Soccer Hall of Fame's Colin Jose Media Award.[9] In 2021 JP took the position of President of Communications/Media of the Major Arena Soccer League.
In 2022, Dellacamera returned to call his ninth World Cup and his second with Fox Sports.[10] Calling matches with him in Qatar was former USMNT midfielder and Los Angeles Galaxy player/broadcaster Cobi Jones.
National Hockey League
In addition to soccer and a few other sports, Dellacamera is a veteran
World Junior Hockey
Dellacamera served as the
TV credits
This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. (November 2022) |
- FIFA World Cup: 1986 (ESPN), 1990 (TNT), 1998 (ABC/ESPN), 2002 (ABC/ESPN), 2006 (ABC/ESPN), 2010 (ESPN Radio), 2014 (ESPN Radio), 2018 (Fox Sports), 2022 (Fox Sports)
- MLS: 1996-2006 (ABC/ESPN), 2008–2010 (ABC/ESPN), 2010–2022 (Philadelphia Union), 2011 (Fox Soccer), 2012-2014 (NBC Sports), 2015–present (Fox Sports)
- FIFA Women's World Cup: 1995 (ESPN), 1999 (ABC/ESPN), 2003 (ABC/ESPN), 2007 (ESPN), 2015 (Fox Sports), 2019 (Fox Sports), 2023 (Fox Sports)
- 2008(NBC Sports)
- UEFA Champions League: 1994-2000 (ESPN)
- USMNTGames: 1999-2002 (ESPN), 2007-2010 (ESPN)
- USWNTGames: 1999-2010 (ESPN), 2015-present (Fox Sports)
- NHL: 2002-2004 (ABC/ESPN)
- World Junior Ice Hockey Championships: 2010 (NHL Network)
- NWSL: 2021–present (CBS Sports)
- Women's United Soccer Association: 2001 (Turner Sports)
- Copa América Femenina: 2022 (Fox Sports)
References
- ^ Souza, Scott (July 15, 2015). "Waltham's JP Dellacamera makes history as Women's World Cup announcer". Waltham News Tribune.
- ^ [1] Zap2It
- ^ [2] Sun Broadcast Group
- ^ [3] Soccer America Daily
- ^ Medium Well: Your NBC Olympics lineup - A blog on sports media, news and networks Archived 2008-08-03 at the Wayback Machine Baltimore Sun
- ^ @PhilaUnion (November 4, 2010). "JP Dellacamera will be Philadelphia Union's play-by-play announcer for the club's Inaugural Season!" (Tweet). Retrieved 2022-11-25 – via Twitter.
- ^ "MLS, NBC announce three-year broadcast deal". MLSsoccer.com. 2011-08-10. Archived from the original on 2011-10-25. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ^ "JP Dellacamera to call some New York Comsos NASL games".
- ^ "JP Dellacamera Named 2018 Colin Jose Media Award Winner". ussoccer.com. 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
- ^ Zeitlin, Dave (2022-06-13). "JP Dellacamera, the understated voice of American soccer, heads to his ninth World Cup". theathletic.com. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
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Preceded by | MLS Cup play-by-play announcer 2002–2005 2008–2009 |
Succeeded by |