Ryan Baldi

Ryan Baldi is a sportswriter and author with years of experience covering major live events, interviewing key figures and producing popular and insightful features. His work is featured by BBC Sport, The Guardian, Word Soccer magazine, FourFourTwo, The Independent, the i newspaper and more. His first book, The Next Big Thing: How Football’s Wonderkids Lose Their Way, was published in 2019. He was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2021 for The Dream Factory: Inside the Make or Break World of Football’s Academies.