Béla Réthy

German sports reporter

Béla Andreas Réthy (born 14 December 1956) is a German sports reporter of Hungarian ancestry.

Life

When Réthy was born in Vienna,^[1]^[2] his parents had to leave their home country because of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.^[3] They emigrated to Brazil where they stayed until they went to Germany in 1968.^[4] Réthy obtained his Abitur certificate at Gutenbergschule Wiesbaden [de]^[5] so he was able to attend Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz where he studied literature and journalism.^[6] In the meantime he worked in the sports archive of the ZDF and became a freelancer later.^[7] Since 1987, he has been a full-time broadcaster.^[6]

His first live broadcast was during an international football match between the under-16 teams of Germany and Ireland in 1991.^[8] He has commentated at the finals of:

the Euro 1996 (Germany vs. Czech Republic) in England^[6]
the 2002 FIFA World Cup (Germany vs. Brazil) in Japan and South Korea^[6]
the Euro 2004 (Portugal vs. Greece) in Portugal^[6]
the 2010 FIFA World Cup (Spain vs. Netherlands) in South Africa^[6]
the Euro 2012 (Spain vs. Italy) in Poland and Ukraine^[6]
the 2018 FIFA World Cup (France vs. Croatia) in Russia^[6]

In addition, he has also commentated the UEFA Champions League finals of 2013, 2014 and 2015.^[9]

Réthy speaks German, Hungarian, Portuguese and English fluently, as well as French and Spanish.^[4]

Books

Réthy, Béla; Psotta, Kai (2014). Live die Länderspiele meines Lebens (in German). Köln. ISBN 978-3-7857-2496-5. OCLC 864650341.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

^ "Stimme des Fußballs: Letztes Spiel für Béla Réthy". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 12 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
^ "Béla Réthy über seine letzte WM: "Man muss als Reporter diesmal ein bisschen mehr aufpassen"". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 19 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
^ "Ciao, Béla!". kicker (in German). 14 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Bela Rethy". www.berner-block.de (in German). Archived from the original on 18 June 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
^ "In fünf Jahren soll Schluss sein". fnp.de (in German). 4 November 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Biografie". ZDF Presseportal (in German). Retrieved 14 December 2022.
^ Strasser, Patrick (14 December 2022). "Sportkommentator Béla Réthy verabschiedet sich: "Freue mich sehr darauf, als Fan ins Stadion zu gehen"". RND.de (in German). Retrieved 14 December 2022.
^ "Béla und Belo: Réthys fünf Highlights bei der WM". Abendzeitung München (in German). 14 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
^ "Sajnálja Dárdai távozását a Bundesliga "magyar hangja"". 14 August 2015.