After almost 40 years calling football matches in the United States, it would be easy to assume that Andrés Cantor had run out of elements of the desire list. His voice is the soundtrack of some of the most memorable moments of the game, including calls in the Spanish language such as the national male team of Argentina and the US National Team of the USA. UU. He won world glasses only in the last decade. However, there is something new that he wanted to do for some time, although he will not have to wait for much more to verify that element of the desire list, call a game with his son, Nico.
The couple will join to convey the semifinal of the Concacaf Nations League between Canada and Mexico on Thursday (10:30 PM ET, Paramount+), marking the first time that a father-son duo will share a television cabin in the history of sports in English-language in the United States. It will not be the first time that the couple has worked together: that honor was reserved for the transmission of Spanish radio of a friendly between Mexico and Colombia when Nico, currently an issuer for CBS Sports Golazo Network, was still in high school and the two had to solve the mechanics of how to call themselves. However, when Nico advanced in his career, his father was hoping of a high profile meeting.
“It is one of my things on the desire list, to transmit an English game and I hope it is not the last,” Andres Cantor told CBS Sports. “I hope this is the first of many in English together or in Spanish, but I hope we have fun and entertain us to the audience.”
The largest singer is an adequate choice for the Concacaf Nations League Party, partly because this week’s action, which includes semifinalist companions Panama and the US national male team. UU. Next year’s World Cup is being seen by many as a seminal moment in the history of football in the United States, something that Cantor has had a front row. He called his first game, a meeting between the Club of Mexico America and the Romani of Italy, in February 1987 and quickly won renown even when the sport fought to do the same. Cantor’s goal call, modeled after the many Latin American stations that came before him, earned him the invited places in The Late Show with David Letterman during the 1990s, an appearance in the Simpsons and the opportunity to spend time with Snoop Dogg during the NBC and Telemundo transmission of the Olympic Games last summer.
However, his ability to become, and stay, relevant does not mean that he did not experience some of the uphill battles that football has in the United States.
Cantor has seen football to get to a long w
“There was a lot of resistance within the main media about football,” Cantor said. “I think they felt threatened. First, there was a lot of ignorance about the game. No one knew too much about it and then it was a kind of laugh because it was a low score and there were so many things I had to fight, explaining to people that a game 2-2 is a game 14-14 in the NFL … there were many enemies that I saw in what I saw until 1994, so I was so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy and so happy.
Cantor, like other football stations in the United States, looks at himself as a sports guard for which he fell in love in Argentina, the country of his birth. He is perhaps an ideal administrator for the most popular game in the world in the United States, where he moved when he was a teenager and is now a double citizen. It has always been a figure present in the American football scene during most of his career, to the point that he called all the games in the world of 1990, 1994 and 1998 for Univisión, a feat that does not plan to achieve again in 2026 for the first team 48, 104 edition of competition games. His list of the three most memorable games he has called is a perfect encapsulation of who he is and the transformative sensation that those moments call again: Landon Donovan’s goal against Algeria to send the USMNT to the 16 -World Cup in the World Cup in 2010, the last of the three goals of the Carli Lloyd World Cup World Cup of Carli Lloyd in the 2015 World Cup and the World Cup in 2015 Gonazlo, who won the Argentine World Cup.
The iconic call of the singer’s goal is totally authentic
His fame is produced largely due to his iconic goal call, which his child calls the “money manufacturer.” It is a comment that inspires a more experienced laughter, even if he has a point after his father’s voice was heard in the commercials of Volkswagen and Geico. The elongated and passionate use of the word is as memorable as a stellar objective, although one thing is safe, as an impressive objective, the singer’s call is not artificial, but an example of the ability and elegant precision that only a professional can deliver.
“I know people could wait for the goal call, but it has never been a trick for me,” Cantor said. “It has been natural due to the beauty of the objective itself, of the intensity of the party.”
Cantor is a true natural, it does not have a real routine prior to the party to keep the fresh vocal strings. Try to prioritize rest and exclude the outside world in Gameday, although it has overcome the wide range of obstacles that can come with any attempt to stay silent and relaxed before a great transmission. Let’s take, for example, his call to the target of Lloyd. She had already scored twice in the first five minutes of the eventual USWNT 5-2 victory over Japan, and her teammate Lauren Holiday put it 3-0 in the 14th minute Essentially ensuring the 16 -year wait for USWNT for a third World Cup title in the 16th minute. Cantor called that strike in the reliable way that has become his registered trademark, even if his trip to the BC place in Vancouver for the World Cup final was far from being conventional.
“The night before that game in Vancouver, I called the final of the Copa América between Argentina and Chile in Santiago,” he said. “I took a red eye just after. The stadium, closed the door behind me. It was an American flight from Santiago to Dallas, rented a plane from Dallas to Vancouver, they arrived at the hotel, shower, shower and arrived and arrived at the game to call the final with probably an hour and a half left over and still had enough energy, I suppose, to make that memorable call because I could not believe what I could not see.
The challenge of working in two different languages
His instinctive fervor for the game, Cantor said, gives him the opportunity to bring the pace of Spanish comments to the public in English, a somewhat unusual opportunity in the US transmission, but a testimony of his work. Although the task in front of him is the same regardless of the language, Cantor pointed out certain differences between calling a game in Spanish and English.
“I’m at a different pace in English,” Cantor said. “It is really difficult because every opportunity I have to play in English, they ask me to be. The reason they hire me is to be the Andres Cantor that everyone knows in the Spanish game, but, nevertheless, there is a cadence that is different … it will take a few minutes to find my voice, my rhythm.”
Cantor will have the benefit of having a family voice there to offer assistance, if necessary.
“It will probably feel a bit different knowing that I will have the comfort of having Nico by my side,” Cantor said. “I think in that sense, it will be very fun. I hope I do not have to save me many times and get out of problems, but no, it will be very fun because obviously, it is not only my son and I am not [just] saying this. I’m taking my dad. Professionally respects him so much that it will be very, very nice to work with him. “
