Football: Female commentator makes breakthrough on German TV
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Buy SPH photosBERLIN (AP) - German football fans heard an unfamiliar voice on Sunday when a woman gave running commentary on a men's football game on national TV for the first time.
Christina Graf became the country's first female commentator at a men's professional football game when she covered Hertha Berlin's visit to Jahn Regensburg in the German football second division.
The 27-year-old Graf defeated around 1,200 applicants to win a casting show for her new job with broadcaster Sky.
Graf tells the dpa news agency "It's a huge opportunity" and that she's not "the very extroverted type and won't go ballistic."
