Alan Moore (Russian athlete)

Lived until 3 years old on Dublin's South Circular Road before moving with his family to Corduff in North West Dublin. He went to school in Scoil Bhríde in Blanchardstown before starting secondary school in St. Vincent's C.B.S. where he captained the school hurling team and also played basketball. He sat his Leaving Cert in Sandymount High School where he both play for and coached he school soccer team. Growing up he played hurling and football from the age of 7 for St Brigid's. In 1996, he graduated from University College Dublin with a 2.1 B.A. in Archaeology and Geography before emigrating to Canada to follow a soccer career. In 1997, he began a Masters degree at Maynooth University. He is currently completing a Masters in International Economics in the Russian State Social University on the subject of International Education models.

He is Director of the International Office of National University of Science and Technology MISiS in Moscow,[1] having previously been Director of the RSSU Centre of International Relations[2] and Director of the Russian State Social University College from 2017 to 2019.[3] He is an International sports journalist[4] and since April 2017 to present he is Producer and host of Capital Sports on Capital FM, Moscow.[5] From 2017 to 2018 former tennis star and current Eurosport commentator Ekaterina Bychkova co-hosted with Alan.

Moore has worked for many years in education as a teacher, administrator, consultant and International expert. He has given lecture courses in a number of countries as well as best practice case studies and master classes. In 2018 he was a key note speaker at The International Forum in Kirov: Inclusive Education in Higher Education Institutions[6] and at The Lessons of Nuremberg in 2020.[7]

Having played a number of sports growing up, Alan played soccer for a number of local Dublin clubs including St. Mochta's F.C. (with trials at Bristol Rovers F.C., Livingston F.C. and Notts County FC, and in 1997 was sent from Montreal Impact to Hershey Wildcats in the A-League (1995-2004).[8] As an International boxer Moore remains the most titled Irish University boxer in history with 6 Irish and 6 British + Irish University Senior Championship titles. In addition he won a Junior Irish title and was unbeaten with 3 wins in Colours matches (vs Trinity College Dublin). As well as boxing for various clubs in Ireland and abroad, he featured for both University College Dublin and Maynooth University, the latter's club he established in 1997. He won a special award in 1992 for winning the Golden 4 - Irish Junior, Irish Senior and British + Irish Senior titles and Colours match.

He moved into sports management and development where as General Director of Hiberno in Croatia he founded Rugby Club Knin [9] and worked with a number of international sports [10] and business projects. Moore served as Development Officer and Director of Maltese Premier League Club Floriana F.C. in 2008–10.[11][12]

In 2019 Moore was coach of the Russian Native Ladies gaelic Football at the Renault GAA World Games.[13][14]

He currently serves as Secretary of Moscow Shamrocks GAC[15] and PRO for Gaelic Games Europe.[16]

In 2013 his article 'The Fear of the Known'[17] openly discussed 'silent bans' in tennis, which were denied previously [18] and at the time. 3 years later the International Tennis Federation admitted to the same and that such bans would no longer be used.[19] While writing the same article, Alan was investigating systemic failures in anti-doping, specifically in Russia, and interviewed Grigori Rodchenkov in 2012, having met him 2 years previously. Although he reported on Rodchenkov and his operations in 2012–13, no action was ever taken.[20]

After cooperation with the Sydney Morning Herald and Buzzfeed, Moore spoke out about matchfixing issues in sports, including tennis.[21][22]

In the buildup to the FIFA World Cup 2018, where Alan worked as a commentator at Luzhniki Stadium, he decried Russia's lack of quality footballers and feared for their chances on Newstalk Radio.[23] He used his role as a World Cup match commentator to promote the development of the education system at Russian State Social University (RSSU College).[24]

Moore's work appears in a number of newspapers, magazines and news sources including Championat.com,[25] Sports Daily,[26] Extratime[4] and TRT World.[27]

He has 2 children, Annalisa (born 2005) and Timur (born 2009).

• Paul Kimmage
• Dan Roan
• Alexey Smertin
• Vasily Artemyev
• Anna Chakvetadze
• Alec Peters
• Oleg Taktarov
• Július Hudáček
• Cillian Sheridan
• Mia St. John
• Dmitri Sychev
• David Brady
• Vladimir Morozov (figure skater)
• Evgenia Tarasova