Mani Djazmi
Presenter, BBC World Service
Digital, Media and Publishing
Mani Djazmi has presented the World Football programme on BBC World Service since 2018. He has covered two World Cups and several Asian, African and South American cups. He once persuaded a female coach in Iran to let him become the first male journalist to attend a training session of a women’s team by pointing out that he couldn’t see any of them.
“I’ve been a journalist for 20 years, entirely through my own doing, and totally blind for much longer, for which I cannot take any credit.”