Reshmin is a multilingual journalist and sports presenter, broadcasting for BT Sport, TalkSPORT, Discovery Plus, BBC Sport and most recently, a lead presenter with beIn Sports in Qatar, fronting the FIFA World Cup 2022. She is a pioneer in her field with many “firsts” as a British Asian woman.
Reshmin has spent over a decade interviewing the biggest names in world football and works across all leading competitions in domestic and European football. At Real Madrid TV, Reshmin conducted the world-exclusive interviews with Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema.
Other notable credits include hosting award-winning coverage of the Winter Olympics Beijing 2022, the Summer Olympics Tokyo 2020, the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022, the UEFA European Championships 2020, the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019, the FIFA World Cup 2018, the London 2012 Olympics, Wimbledon, the U17 FIFA World Cup Final 2017 and the highly prestigious Match of the Day 2.
A top choice to present the biggest international global sporting events, Reshmin has co-hosted The Best FIFA Football Awards on two occasions, as well as the UEFA Champions League Group Stage Draw five times.
Away from sport, Reshmin is an Ambassador for the British Asian Trust, One Family Global and mentored for Mosaic, which is part of The Princes’ Trust.
Reshmin is a mother to a young daughter and son and juggles motherhood alongside a busy globe-trotting career. She is an advocate for Bliss Charity who specialise in helping the families of premature babies, after going through the experience when her own daughter was born 11 weeks premature in 2011.
She is a fiercely proud Bengali, a language she speaks fluently, as well as conversational Spanish and French.
As well as Manchester United and Newcastle United, Cole also played in the top division of English football for Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Manchester City, Portsmouth and Sunderland, as well as in The Football League for Bristol City, Birmingham City, Burnley and Nottingham Forest. He is the fourth-highest goalscorer in Premier League history with 187 goals, and used to hold the Premier League records for most goals scored in a 42-game season (34), the fastest player to score 50 goals (65 matches), and the first player to top both the Premier League’s goalscoring and assist charts in the same season (1993–94).[3]
Cole has the distinction of having won every top-level team competition in English football at least once, as well as the primary European competition, the UEFA Champions League. As an individual he has won the PFA Young Player of the Year award. Cole was capped 15 times for the England national team between 1995 and 2001, scoring once against Albania in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier.[4]
In August 2009, Cole was hired by his former Manchester United and England teammate, Milton Keynes Dons manager Paul Ince, to coach the club’s forwards on an initially temporary basis.[39] However, one week later, Cole agreed to spend at least two days a week working on finishing with the forwards at Huddersfield Town, under his former Newcastle United and Fulham teammate Lee Clark.[40] In December 2010, Cole was back at Manchester United, working at the Carrington training ground while finishing his coaching badges.[41] In October 2019, Cole was named as forward and attack coach assisting manager, Sol Campbell at Southend United.[42] On 30 June 2020, manager Campbell and his three assistants including Cole left the club by mutual consent.[43]
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