Harry was recently honoured amongst other leading football
luminaries in this country at the Legends of Football function at ANZ Stadium
(home of the Sydney Olympics) hosted by the Western Sydney Wanderers Football
Club
The function recognised the major contributors to the game in Australia and in particular, Harry was singled out as being the only man brave enough to take a chance broadcasting the game here. In fact, in the first year of his rights deal, he personally funded the entire season! He was only permitted to broadcast the second half of matches because SBS (the host network) and t he board of directors of Soccer Australia did not believe there was a television appetite for 90 minutes of football! So Harry had to film and produce an entire game only to have it literally cut in half.
In attendance at the function were; Andy Paschalidis, Ian Holmes, Paul Wade (who Harry employed with Mike Cockerill and Andy Harper as commentators/hosts at Optus Vision and C7 when he was Director for Soccer) Les Scheinflug, Peter Katholos, Gary Phillips, Manfred Schaefer, Alan Davidson and Remo Nogarotto to name just a few.
The function recognised the major contributors to the game in Australia and in particular, Harry was singled out as being the only man brave enough to take a chance broadcasting the game here. In fact, in the first year of his rights deal, he personally funded the entire season! He was only permitted to broadcast the second half of matches because SBS (the host network) and t he board of directors of Soccer Australia did not believe there was a television appetite for 90 minutes of football! So Harry had to film and produce an entire game only to have it literally cut in half.
In attendance at the function were; Andy Paschalidis, Ian Holmes, Paul Wade (who Harry employed with Mike Cockerill and Andy Harper as commentators/hosts at Optus Vision and C7 when he was Director for Soccer) Les Scheinflug, Peter Katholos, Gary Phillips, Manfred Schaefer, Alan Davidson and Remo Nogarotto to name just a few.
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