LUIS OMAR TAPIA BIO

Legendary broadcaster and acclaimed play-by-play announcer Luis Omar Tapia is best known as the voice of the UEFA Champions League across the U.S. and Latin America having called the competition for 27 consecutive years.

Prior to joining FOX Sports as a play-by-play announcer on 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup, Tapia spent a decade with Univisión Deportes calling some of the biggest matches and tournaments in soccer for the Spanish-language network, including Major League Soccer, German Bundesliga, U.S. Men’s National Team and Mexico National Team friendlies and more.

Before joining Univisión in 2013, Tapia worked as broadcaster at FOX Sports Latin America, GolTV, ESPN, TV Azteca and beIN Sports. In 2006, he became the first foreign sports narrator in Mexico to narrate official and friendly matches of the Mexican National Team and First Division games of the Mexican League.

Tapia began his career as a soccer commentator with ESPN in 1991 calling matches across UEFA Champions League, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, Mexican League and more.

He was born in Santiago de Chile and at a very young age his family settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he built his first knowledge of soccer playing in the lower divisions of the CA. San Telmo.