Australia’s rugby and cricket turned out to be quite interesting for Max Bretos, but not as much as football-or as they called in the United States, soccer-. His interest in soccer came from watching the Australian television broadcasts of the matches. In what sports are referred, he also likes baseball very much, a taste he has inherited from his father and connected him back to his Cuban roots.

Education

There is no information available in regards of the sports anchor and reporter ‘s education. In that sense his biography is for the moment incomplete. All that is known comes from his time in college onwards.

While he was living in Santa Monica, California he played for the Santa Monica Rugby Club. In 1994 he graduated from the Florida State University, a state university in Tallahassee, Florida. The degree he received was in International Relations. Wanting to pursue an acting career, he went to Los Angeles, California. And in search of that he went and studied in the Judith Weston Acting Studio.

Career

It is known that he started to work for Fox Soccer Channel, a channel owned by 21st Century Fox's Fox Entertainment Group, back in 1998. He worked for this former television channel for many years. He ended his time in this soccer specialized American channel in 2010. At the end of his career there he was the longest running sports presenter of Fox Entertainment Group. He made himself recognizable thanks to his repeated catchphrase, Schelotto, yeah!.

While he was working for 21st Century Fox he also worked for Sky Sports, a pay TV sports channel based in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He shifted to the United Kingdom to work for them. He lived across the sea from his home for three years starting in 2003. Then, the following year, he went to work for World Wrestling Entertainment, Incorporated. Moving back to the United States of America to do so.

Time in ESPN

After his time at the now closed Fox Soccer Channel, he went to work for ESPN. He worked there covering college basketball matches, among other duties. Among them hosting a Mixed Martial Arts Live, College Football Live and Outside the Line. But his most important job was being the anchorman for Sportscenter. He began his work there in January of 2010. In that same year he covered the Major League Soccer Cup as ESPN’s major anchorman. Two years after starting, he was in charge of reporting for the ESPN cover of the European Championship back in 2012.

The following year that he Co hosted One Nacion, an ESPN Hispanic special program. He also interviewed Yasiel Puig, the right fielder of Los Angeles Dodgers, that same year.

Suspension

It was during 2012 that he was suspended for a while after making an off colour comment about Jeremy Lin, the point guard of the New York Knicks, a basketball team. Precisely, he called the Asian basketball player: chink in the armour. An action for which he ended up apologising on his twitter account.

Also, in regards to that slip of the tongue, he clarified that he had no ill intend to a news media saying that his wife is Asian. Not much more is actually known about the woman he married.