Hugo Borst


Hugo Borst is a Dutch writer, editor, TV personality and critic.

Career

Borst finished school when he was 18, the so-called havo. Although he never played professional football, he became a journalist
for the magazine Voetbal International in 1985. After working for Voetbal International for six years he started to write for another magazine, Panorama. He did that for three years only. He now writes columns for the Algemeen Dagblad as well for the magazine Esquire, about love and sex. He also is one of the main editors for the soccermagazine Hard Gras.
Borst also appeared on Dutch television. An avid Sparta Rotterdam supporter, he was a regular guest in the soccer discussion program Studio Voetbal as well as regular guest in the current affairs program De Wereld Draait Door.
He also presented his own television program, Over Vaders en Zonen. In this show Borst examines issues of raising autistic children, a topic to which he was drawn due to his experiences with his own autistic son.
In 2011, Borst ceased all writing and television activities, claiming he was mentally exhausted.
During the 2014 World Cup Borst is appearing on Nederland 1's "Studio Brasil" as a pundit.

Books

YearMediumFunction
1985–1991Voetbal InternationalJournalist
1991–1994PanoramaJournalist
1994 -Hard GrasHead editor
2004Komt dat schot Judge member
2005 -Algemeen DagbladColumnist
2005 -EsquireColumnist
2005–2010Studio Voetbal Regular Guest
2006–2010De Wereld Draait Door Regular Guest
2007–2009Over Vaders en Zonen Interviewer and presenter
2010WIA 4 Voice over