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Sandro Micallef
Sandro Micallef is a Sports Journalist from Malta, with an international portfolio. He was born on 3rd June 1980 and is very popular in Malta especially for his football live commentaries. He is also a TV producer, TV Presenter and currently the General Secretary of the Malta Sports Journalists Association.

After having been educated at De La Salle Collage he read a Communications and Sociology degree at the University of Malta.

Stared his career in media in 1995 only at 15 years as an assistant news reporter at Smash TV. He then moved to Bay Radio 98.7FM where he worked as a newscaster. At the age of 17 he was employed as a part timer within Media.link Communications as a reporter for in-Nazzjon (a Maltese political Newspaper) when he used to report Parliamentary sessions. In October of 1997 he was asked to join the Production team of Extra Time which was a local football TV programme broadcast on Net TV. Micallef enrols himself within the then Ghaqda Kittieba Sports now renamed as Ghaqda Gurnalisti Sports where he has the opportunity to work alongside various experienced sports journalists.

In 1998 he is again employed by Media.link Communications to work as assistant producer and football commentator / reporter within the TV programme Replay where he later was promoted to co-anchor for no less than seven years. Concurrently he produced and presented another sports programme namely a Reality Show called Net Stars which was an idea derived from Mediaset's TV show Campioni. Sandro Micallef also won the best Sports Programme Award with Replay along with his co-presenter John Busuttil. In 2006 he took up the challenge to work for Malta's foremost TV Entertainment company Melita Plc where he was asked to coordinate the Sports section of the company ahead of the 2006 World Cup of which TV rights were acquired by the company. During his time at Melita Plc, Micallef undertook several live commentaries for the company's Sports pay TV channels, namely UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, Malta BOV Premier League and many others. Micallef also was the fixed voice for all of Malta's National team football games played on home soil. He also travelled several times with the National team when the TV rights of the away games were secured by Melita and so undertaking live commentary on location. He is asked by the Management of the company to negotiate a three year deal with the Malta Football Association for the exclusive live coverage of the best local games from the Premier Division. Needless to mention he undertakes commentaries of the main games with his unique passionate way of delivering the action into the homes of the Maltese football fans. At Melita Plc, Micallef was the mastermind behind the set up and conception of Malta's only sports dedicated channel ie) Malta Stars which still today broadcasts 24 hours round the year live and delayed coverage of Maltese sports namely, Football, Basketball, Handball, Boxing, Snooker, Water polo, Billiards, Rugby, Motor Sports, Poker and much more.

He becomes popular also by luck within the Maltese Rugby community having commented live for Melita Plc, Malta's historic win over Sweden with the last kick of the match. During his time at Melita he was given permission to produce his own TV Football show "Kontrattakk" on Favourite channel. The programme is then moved to TVM which is Malta's Public National TV Station. Kontrattakk registers an impressive audience share since the first few hours on air despite being broadcast on Sunday evenings head on with the live transmission of the Italian Serie A games which are also followed immensely in Malta.

Kontrattakk is again confirmed for yet another season on TVM

Sandro Micallef eventually assigned the role of Sports Acquisition Executive within Melita Plc a role that required Micallef to focus more on the quality and content of the product, thus forcing him to miss some important local football fixtures due to his administrative commitments. In the role of Sports Acquisition Executive he was successful to secure Formula 1, Champions League, Europa League, Liga and Bundesliga for Melita till 2010/11 and 2011/12. During these years he had the opportunity to meet personally with TEAM and UEFA officials together with a handsome of decision makers from the media and TV industry namely Sky, RAI Trade, Sportsbrand, MP Silva, Greenlight, Sportfive, Premier League, Pitch etc. Micallef was unanimously appointed General Secretary of the Malta Sports Journalists Association in 2010.