Alex Scott

Alex Scott

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderFemale
BirthdayOct 14, 1984
BiographyAlexandra Virina Scott (born 14 October 1984) is an English sports presenter, pundit and former professional footballer who played as a right-back. She has been the current presenter of Football Focus since 2021.

At club level, Scott has had three separate spells with Arsenal, punctuated with a season at Birmingham City in the 2004–05 season and three years in the American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) with the Boston Breakers. She scored the winning goal for Arsenal in the 2007 UEFA Women's Cup final. At international level, she made 140 appearances for the England national team and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Scott was inducted to the English Football Hall of Fame in 2019, and was inducted to the WSL Hall of Fame in 2024.

After retirement, Scott went into punditry, simultaneously working for BBC Sport and Sky Sports. In this role, she covered the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Scott also began co-presenting shows such as The One Show and Goals on Sunday, before primarily working for the BBC, where she became co-host of the annual Sports Personality of the Year ceremony and presented coverage of the Summer Olympics. In 2021, she was named the main presenter of Football Focus, succeeding Dan Walker.

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