Introducing Serie A Talk’s Kevin Walker

A spe­cial note from me, The Gaffer. I’d like to intro­duce you to Kevin Walker, who you may have noticed has been keep­ing read­ers up to date on the lat­est activ­i­ties involv­ing Serie A. It’s a plea­sure to have Kevin on board as a blog­ger (and pos­si­ble future pod­caster) for Serie A. To learn more about him, here’s his bio:

Kevin Walker
My name is Kevin Walker  and I’ve been in love with the beau­ti­ful game from an early age. Hav­ing played at the youth and inter­col­le­giate level in the Toronto region and in work­ing for sev­eral sport­ing com­pa­nies, I still owe much to my father my great­est influ­ence. Dad brought with him the Eng­lish sports­man cul­ture to Canada and was a mem­ber of sev­eral Toronto cricket clubs in his day. His great­est exper­tise and first love was of course cricket, (hav­ing played for the national side) but he nev­er­the­less instilled in me a love of all things foot­ball, one more of his passions.

Being North Amer­i­can I nat­u­rally grav­i­tated toward the fast pace of foot­ball and liv­ing in the greater Toronto region exposed me to a vari­ety of cul­tures, each with unique tra­di­tions of the game. A large Ital­ian sports pop­u­la­tion no doubt played it’s part and I was nat­u­rally intrigued by RAI broad­casts inter­mit­tently avail­able on cable tele­vi­sion.  This was prob­a­bly my first glimpse of Euro­pean foot­ball and why I find myself enjoy­ing more and more the fla­vor of Ital­ian Calcio.

Cur­rent fas­ci­na­tion is fur­ther dis­cov­ery of Cal­cio ori­gins, it’s city rivalries, politics and exports to the world. Hope­fully you’ll enjoy my con­tri­bu­tion to the world of Serie A and visit SerieA Talk for weekly dis­cus­sions about this fas­ci­nat­ing game.