On the latest episode of That’s a Dive, Kyle Martino is joined by Premier League host Rebecca Lowe to discuss some of the latest stories from around the Premier League, Rebecca’s journey to covering the Premier League and the difficulty of being a woman in sports.
After finishing her education, Lowe had plans of becoming an actress and took a job in sports radio as she pursued an acting career. At 21 years old, she entered a soccer reporting competition after hearing about it from a friend and ended up earning a job with the BBC. At that point, acting took a backseat as Lowe ventured into journalism.
As she said on the podcast, “You don’t leave the BBC when you’re 21 to go back to trying to be an actress, so I just stayed.”
What has followed for Lowe is a career that has brought her to the U.S. to lead NBC’s Premier League coverage. Despite her success, it has not been easy for Lowe. “It’s been very difficult,” she said when Martino asked about being a woman in sports.
Speaking of her time working in the UK, Lowe said, “I was abused to an extent to which I decided that I was done...It was so bad, I would be walking down a touchline and would have to have a bodyguard at one ground.”
Lowe hopes to get to a point where she will no longer be asked about being a woman in sports.
“I don’t want to be different,” she said. “I just want to be in the game doing my job. You don’t want to be separated, you don’t want it to be different. You just want to be seen as the role that you’re doing, not the person that you are. “
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Following their podcast, Martino sat down for a Facebook Live to answer questions on a variety of soccer topics, including rumors of James Rodriguez going to Man United, his Champions League and Europa League final predictions, the best league in the world and more.