Georgy Cherdantsev

Georgy Vladimirovich Cherdantsev (; February 1, 1971, Moscow, USSR ) is a Russian sports commentator for TV and radio. He is mainly known as a sports commentator channels NTV and NTV Plus. He is currently working at the channel Match TV.

Biography Georgy Cherdantsev was born on February 1, 1971, in Moscow. Great-grandfather George wrote the first textbook on Russian shorthand. His great-grandfather created the first geographical map of Uzbekistan. One of the streets of Tashkent was named Cherdantsev for a while.

Since 1982 to 1989 he played in Moscow football championship among the clubs of Spartak-2, but was forced to finish his football career due to a knee injury. After graduation he worked in the legal department of a bank, as a loader in a warehouse in Istanbul, and at a tourist company. He started in the position of interpreter, then began to report small stories, reports, football championships reviews.

In August 2013 he was appointed head of the TV channel Sport Plus. He presented the Olympic Channel from Sochi on Sport Plus in 2014 in tandem with the leading radio Sport FM reporter Sofya Tartakova.

He has mainly commentated on matches in Serie A. He also worked as a commentator for the World and European championships. He commentated on three UEFA Champions League seasons — in 2003, 2007 and 2015.

In April 2015 AST publishing house published a book about Cherdantsev called Notes of Football Commentator.

He has been the Russian commentator of EA Sports FIFA 16 together with Konstantin Genich.