The FIFA World Cup is a particularly emotional event for commentators to cover, as they have their own long-held national team affiliations to reckon with while covering the thrill of one of the world\u2019s great sporting events.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, it was Fox\u2019s Rebecca Lowe\u2019s turn to deal with the agony that can come in defeat. Lowe, who was born in England before moving to the U.S. for her career as a soccer broadcaster, watched from the Fox set as England suffered a crushing 1-2 loss to Argentina.<\/p>\n
Though Lowe handled the situation professionally just as Thierry Henry did when France lost the previous day, or Alexi Lalas did after the USMNT\u2019s ugly loss in the Round of 16<\/a>, Lalas took the opportunity to salute Lowe for her class in a tough moment.<\/p>\n \u201cI would expect nothing less, but Rebecca, I know you are a human being first and foremost, and I know that you are an England fan and what you saw and experienced emotionally,\u201d Lalas said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd we see it all over the place. This was an incredible run. You\u2019re also an incredible professional in what you do because I know you\u2019re feeling it right now, as all of the England fans are, to get so close. But we love you, and we love this team and what it brought to this tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n After Lalas\u2019 message, Lowe noted she had received hugs from Henry and Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107. The camera, however, showed images of the post-match reactions of the English and Argentinian players, so viewers could not see Lowe\u2019s reaction or the embrace she shared with her colleagues.<\/p>\n Just about every fanbase has to deal with disappointment as the World Cup whittles itself from a full field to just one champion. But England\u2019s history in the tournament is particularly tortured, as soccer\u2019s birth country has failed to win one since 1966. To see the Three Lions make the semifinal yet still flame out had to be hard on Lowe, and it was a testament to the new-look studio team\u2019s genuine connection<\/a> that Lalas and the other panelists would care for her in that spot.<\/p>\n As Lowe signed off from Fox\u2019s coverage for the day, she noted her appreciation of the analysts for their \u201csupport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIFA World Cup is a particularly emotional event for commentators to cover, as they have their own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[166971,315096,315097,403,99],"class_list":["post-765187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-alexi-lalas","tag-rebecca-lowe","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}