JENNY CHIU is the latest talented sports broadcaster whose star is on the rise.
The glamorous former Mexican international star now works for CBS on their coverage of the Champions League.
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Chiu joined CBS back in September 2020 and has already become a key part of their team.
She presents on location for big European games, including the Champions League final in Paris last month.
A dual Mexican and American national, Chiu played for Mexico at youth level right up to the U20 side at the 2014 World Cup.
She lives in El Paso, Texas and graduated from the famed sports college University of North Carolina.
Chiu started her broadcasting career with gigs at the Rio 2016 Olympics and in Australia for Fox Sports.
According to her LinkedIn, she joined Portland Timbers’ digital media team as an intern in 2018.
And she then went on to work for Orlando City as a reporter for the MLS side.
Her work in Florida earned her a position with CBS Sports and she hasn’t looked back since.
Chiu now has over 28,000 Instagram followers and is friends with another broadcaster Jules Breach, who works for BT Sport in the UK.
Her Instagram account has a shot with legends Peter Schmeichel and Thierry Henry at the Champions League final earlier this year.
She spoke of her excitement in March ahead of CBS’ broadcast of a USA vs Mexico World Cup qualifier.
Chiu told AwfulAnnouncing: “I’m so excited. I don’t think I ever pictured myself on the other side, being a journalist covering this.
“But I feel really lucky to be a part of it in any way. Even just going to the game, I would have gone if I wasn’t working it, because that’s how big of a deal it is.”
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She added: “I think because I’m covering it I’m definitely supposed to take my journalistic impartiality, but my allegiance lies with Mexico soccer.
“I always root for the U.S. if the U.S. is playing anybody, unless it’s Mexico.
“If it’s Mexico, Mexico soccer trumps the U.S. just because of the way I represented them and my upbringing in a very Mexican soccer culture.
“People think it’s hilarious because my brothers choose the U.S., but because I played for Mexico, I spent more time there, I fell in love with the culture and the people, and I could never go up against the Mexican national team.
“I played with boys growing up in El Paso, which is a border town, and I think that really shaped the kind of player I was at the time.
“Going to play for Mexico just seemed very natural for me, because I had played with Mexican or Spanish-speaking players my entire childhood.
“I think some people have a plan because they come from experience or their parents played or whatever, but we had no idea.
“My dad didn’t play soccer, my mom didn’t play soccer, so we were just trying to be open, if there was an opportunity, we would take it. And we got lucky.”
