Giselle Zarur Maccise (born 29 May 1987) is a Mexican sports journalist and television reporter for
Fox Deportes. She has also worked for the
Televisa and
Canal F1 Latin America television networks, and has covered a wide variety of sports throughout her career, such as
Formula One and
NASCAR motor racing, the
Liga MX football league,
tennis and
Super Bowl LIV in Miami.
Biography
Zarur was born on 29 May 1987,[1] in
Mexico City, Mexico.[2] She is of Lebanese descent through her parents and grandparents,[3][4] and is a graduate of the Centro de Estudios en Ciencias de la Comunicación.[1] Zarur began her broadcasting career with mass media company
Televisa in 2010,[2][5] and covered a wide variety of sports such as
Formula One motor racing, the
Liga MX football league and
tennis;[5] Formula One is where she garnered the most recognition for her expertise in the series and reported on the whole season. She also reported on Formula One for
Canal F1 Latin America, the network's official Latin American broadcast station.[4] Zarur's work in Mexican football saw her report on major league finals and matches in the country, such as the
El Súper Clásico rivalry between the
América and
Guadalajara clubs.[2]
She did her final broadcast of Formula One for Canal F1 Latin America at the
2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.[1] In late October 2018, Zarur left Televisia, and subsequently moved to the city of
Los Angeles to take up employment with the Spanish-language
Fox Deportes network in the United States. She denied media reports Televisa sacked her following the mass media company's decision to dismiss some of its commentators and presenters in April 2019.[6][7] Zarur had felt her career at Televisa was over,[4] and she began working for Fox Deportes in July 2019.[5][8] She presents Fox Deportes' weekly broadcast of Liga MX from Mexico and covered
Super Bowl LIV in Miami.[2]