Welcome back to another episode of the Believe It, Achieve It Podcast with June Angelides!
In this season June will be speaking to some of the Most Powerful Female Voices.
Today, June sits down with Nathalie Mamo, Former Pro Basketball player, a Sports Television Presenter and Host of The Victorious Football Talent Show and WWE.
Basketball Career:
Born in a sports family, Nathalie grew up to become a professional basketball player since the age of 11. She was the youngest Arab player to ever play in first division at that age and join both the Junior and the Women National Team by the age of 13. After a career of 16 years being the captain of the best basketball teams in Lebanon and the National Team and after having won more than 65 titles on the personal, international and national level. Nathalie has decided to retire at the age of 26 being one of the most decorated players in history and pursue her career on TV.
TV Career:
In 2009 Nathalie was approached by MTV Lebanon to become the 1st woman who presents sports news on MTV. Throughout the years she has presented several sports and motor shows as well as created her own show dedicated for women athletes.
Nathalie has presented the openings of several international sports tournaments, launches of a lot of products (mainly cars) and appeared on many TV shows.
In 2012, Nathalie was offered job opportunities with both Sky News Arabia and BeIn Sports but decided to join Sky News Arabia in Abu Dhabi to become the presenter of the sports bulletins and the sports morning show where she had the chance to interview a list of class A athletes from different sports and cover various sports events.
Nathalie resigned from Sky News in February 2017 to move to another opportunity with OSN and MBC being the host of the first WWE show in the region until today.
Along with the above, In 2014, Nathalie was chosen to be the main host of the biggest Sports TV Reality show in the region “THE VICTORIOUS”, where she presented the “dailies” episodes along with the weekly primes. The jury on the show were the biggest football legends such as: Diego Maradona, Thierry Henry, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Ryan Giggs, Raul, Fabio Cannavaro, Roberto Carlos, Luis Figo and many others. Nathalie has presented season 1 , season 2 and season 3 of the show.
Nathalie is today considered a leading figure in sports media in the region. On November 28th 2017, Nathalie was chosen to host and moderate the “Asian Women Journalists Summit” and on December 28th 2017, Nathalie was the first Arab to be hosting the “Globe Soccer Awards , which she had the chance to host it again in 2018 and will host it in 2019.
For more information about Nathalie, visit
Instagram & Snapchat: nathaliemamo
Twitter: @Nathaliemamo12
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