How Lineker’s BBC -Exit will cause the rivalry between Motd -Gastheren for World Cup

Gary Lineker has been organizing the competition of the day for more than 25 years, but will leave the role earlier than expected after a row over his use of social media.

The Leicester, born in Leicester, who moved seamlessly from football player to one of the most famous and highly paid presenters at the company, started his career in Leicester City, the club he had supported since his youth, in 1978.

The 64-year-old striker scored 103 goals for the Foxes in all competitions before he signed Everton for £ 800,000 in 1985.

He scored 40 goals in 57 matches for the toffees in his only season with the Liverpool -based side, before his six goals for England on the World Cup 1986 in Mexico in Mexico won him the Golden Boot Award of the competition and attracted the Spanish football giants Barcelona.

Lineker moved to the Catalan side and became the highest scoring British player in La Liga, the highest football division in Spain, under the English manager Terry Venables.

His record 42 goals were only defeated by Welsh Winger Gareth Bale in 2016.

Lineker spent three years in Spain before he moved to Tottenham Hotspur for £ 1.1 million in July 1989.

He played a role in the run from England to the semi-final of the 1990 World Cup in Italy, which resulted in a defeat about penalties against West Germany.

After the game, Lineker, who led the lions from 1990 to 1992, came up with the expression: “Football is a simple match: 22 men chase 90 minutes a ball behind and at the end the Germans win.”

He won the 1991 FA Cup final with Spurs, in which he defeated Nottingham Forest with 2-1, despite the fact that he had a goal that was not allowed for offside and forest goalkeeper Mark Crossley who saved a penalty.

In 1992 Lineker became the first English football player to play in the highest division of Japan, the J League, when he became a member of Nagoya Grampus Eight for £ 2 million.

He withdrew after an injury hit of two years in the club that saw him play only 23 times.

During his career, Lineker was known for never receiving a yellow or red card booking from the referee.

After his retirement, Lineker joined BBC Radio 5 Live as a football point before he became a team captain in the sports game show, they think it is all over from 1995 to 2003.

In 1997 he took over as a host of Tribune when the then prominent Desmond Lynam was in Aintree for the Grand National who was abandoned because of a bomb alarm.

He replaced Lynam as presenter of the BBC’s flagship Football Highlights Program Match of the day in 1999, when Lynam Death until rival ITV.

Lineker would later become the best -paid presenter of the company, with the annual report of the BBC for 2023/24 which shows that his salary is around £ 1.35 million per year.

He was temporarily suspended from the BBC in March 2023 after an impartiality between comments about comments he criticized the new asylum policy of the government of the then government.

In November 2024 he announced that he would resign from presenting the competition of the day at the end of the season, but would still organize the World Cup and FA Cup cover.

However, he left the broadcaster, after apologizing for sharing and then removing a message on his Instagram account of the Palestine Lobby group, illustrated with a photo of a rat that led him to be fired from the campaign against anti -Semitism (CAA).

After this, the BBC said that Lineker would leave his presenting role after the conclusion of the day before the 2024/25 season and added that he would not present the coverage of the World Cup 2026 or the FA Cup of next season.

Gabby Logan, Kelly Cates and Mark Chapman will share the presenting role in the football show from the next Premier League season.

The former striker of England is also co-founder of Goalhanger Podcasts, makers of the popular The Rest is History Series and his spin-offs about politics, football, entertainment and money.