Tom Egbers (18 October 1957 in

Almelo Almelo () is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie, and Bornerbroek. Almelo has about 72,000 inhabitants in the middle of the rolling countryside of Twente, ...

) is a Dutch journalist of Irish descent, writer and TV presenter (

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)Tom Egbers
on imdb.com since 1985. He studied at the

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in Utrecht, and was employed by Studio Sport ( NOS) in 1984 as presenter. Between 1990 and 1992 Egbers worked for Veronica. He has written a book, ''The Black Meteor'', about black

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Steve Mokone Stephen Madi Mokone OIG (23 March 1932 – 19 March 2015) was a South African footballer who was the first black South African player to play in a professional European league. He was nicknamed ''The Black Meteor'' and ''Kalamazoo''. Early ye ...

that has been made into the film ''

The Black Meteor ''The Black Meteor'' is a 2000 Dutch film directed by Guido Pieters. The film is based on the novel by Tom Egbers, a Dutch sports journalist, which was adapted for the screen by Kees van Beijnum. The novel fictionalizes the story of Steve Mokone, ...

''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Egbers, Tom 1957 births Living people Dutch television presenters Dutch sports journalists Dutch sportswriters Dutch association football commentators People from Almelo