BBC Sport anchor Jason Mohammad has revealed his secret ambition to present televised international football matches from Wrexham’s Racecourse.
The Racecourse will take its place in a new TV three-part series, “Stadiymau’r Byd: gyda Jason Mohammad” (“Stadiums of the World: with Jason Mohammad”).
It is a collaboration between Caernarfon-based production company Cwmni Da and broadcasters from around the world.
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It will be presented by Jason, the man who holds together BBC’s Saturday afternoon results show Final Score, visiting grounds across the world.
The programme goes out on S4C on Thursdays at 9pm in Welsh with English subtitles, with the first of the three programmes on April 6.
International football could also be back soon at the Racecourse, with work starting on a £16million 5,500 capacity stand on the old Kop.
The ground will be featured in the third and final part of the series.
It gives sports fan and Welsh speaker Jason the chance to revisit his own special sporting place, Ninian Park, where his Bluebirds heroes, Cardiff City played and where as an 11-year-old boy, in 1984, he was a mascot at a game.
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Jason, whose sporting CV includes Final Score; Match of the Day 2, the Olympics and Commonwealth Games, said: “Cardiff City’s old Ninian Park ground, long gone now, always holds special memories for me as a local boy, especially as I was once a match mascot there for the Bluebirds.
“No-one forgets the first time they go through the turnstiles at a match and experience that thrill but there are stadiums that really are special and in Wales we are lucky to have the Cardiff City Stadium and of course, the Principality Stadium with its unique atmosphere right in the heart of the capital.
“We also have the world’s oldest international football stadium in Wrexham’s Racecourse where work has started on rebuilding the long derelict Kop which could see Wales return to play there.
“That would be a special day for football in North Wales and it’s a game I’d love to present from the ground.
“I have been lucky enough to visit so many other wonderful grounds in my career and for this series including the Azteca in Mexico.
“Viewers will love this show - which really captures the amazing atmosphere generated at places from Beijing’s futuristic Bird’s Nest to homely Craven Cottage by the Thames at Fulham.”
The series is produced and directed by Cwmni Da’s Euros Wyn and is a collaboration with China, Korea, Ireland and Wales distributed by TVF Media with each partner providing three or four stadia.
Euros said: “The series for S4C is fronted by Jason who pops up at The Racecourse and The Principality in Wales, at Anfield and also down in London at Craven Cottage and White Hart Lane as well as Gaelic football’s Croke Park in Dublin and of course, the iconic Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.
“The stadiums and sporting arenas we visited all have something special about them – and they included The Curragh racecourse in Ireland and more quirky grounds in Croatia and Norway where one stands on a rocky outcrop in the North Atlantic.
“It means we’ve been to some pretty stunning stadiums and one that means a lot to Jason, the site of Cardiff City’s old Ninian Park ground, long gone now.
“Jason also visits the fantastic new Tottenham Hotspur stadium where he meets Spurs chairman Daniel Levy, the man who masterminded the £1billion build."
Cwmni Da was founded in 1997 and has developed into one of Wales’s leading television and film companies whose national and international productions include factual, children’s, comedy, entertainment, drama, events and sport programmes.
The employee-owned company is an important maker of programmes for S4C, creates content for BBC and Channel 4, and has enjoyed success in the international co-production marketplace.
Cwmni Da, which works in Welsh and English, has won numerous BAFTA Cymru, Celtic Media and One-World media prizes and the Jules Verne Adventure award and produces corporate, educational and promotional videos.
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