Alex Naveja just finished his 2nd year with USC Football as the Spanish broadcaster for the Trojans and the inaugural season for the latest Major League Soccer team, San Diego Football Club as the first Bilingual public address announcer. Naveja, 32, started his broadcasting career back in 2016 with 22 West Radio as a bilingual play-by-play broadcaster for baseball, basketball, soccer and softball. He hosted the pre, halftime and post game show for men’s and women’s basketball. Naveja co-founded Deportes 22, the first Spanish sports show in Long Beach. He made his very first television appearance at the age of 21 in 2014 for El Sembrador where he was a World Cup soccer analyst.
Naveja attended California State University Long Beach, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. Naveja was a member of the baseball team for two years representing the Long Beach State Dirtbags. During his junior year of college, Naveja secured an internship with ESPN. He first started off as a production assistant then progressed his way up to becoming a cameraman then a play-by-play broadcaster.
During the summer of 2018, Naveja joined the Inland Valley Baseball Association, the SoCal Collegiate Baseball League and the Sunset Baseball League where he was the play-by-play broadcaster for three different baseball teams in the same season (Inland Valley Bucs, Inland Valley Pirates and SBL Pirates).
After graduating in May 2018, he accepted his first job out of college as the “Voice” of California State University San Marcos Athletics. Naveja also accepted other jobs such as play-by-play broadcaster, PA announcer and show host for the United Premier Soccer League and becoming the “Voice” of Bishop Amat football.
When COVID concluded, he continued his sports broadcasting career with opportunities with UCLA softball, becoming the “Voice” of Point Loma Nazarene University Athletics, TV broadcaster for the National Independent Soccer Association, and with Learfield as the soccer broadcaster for CSUN Athletics, which would eventually create an opportunity to also broadcast for CSUN baseball and softball.
In 2021, things would change for the better. Naveja accepted an internship with the Arroyo Seco Saints, a summer collegiate baseball team in the California Collegiate League as a broadcaster and media relations coordinator. Immediately after the season was over, the Eugene Emeralds (High-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants) offered him a job as the road radio broadcaster, ticket sales rep and media relations manager. The opportunity would evolve as the planner of all Copa De La Diversion games at PK Park, graphic designer and pitch clock coordinator.
An opportunity presented itself for Naveja to come back home to Los Angeles after accepting a few rolls as the Spanish “Voice” for USC Football and starting the first Spanish broadcast for California State University San Bernardino, become the broadcaster for LMU soccer, baseball and softball. He also went back to an old familiar school and became the softball broadcaster for CSUN Athletics once again.
His professional opportunities did not stop there. In 2025, his career would lead him to become the stadium voice of the latest MLS expansion team in their inaugural season, San Diego Football Club. This opportunity would lead him to receive experience in the big international stage to be the stadium voice of the CONCACAF Gold Cup matches in San Diego.
Today you can find him at LMU, broadcasting soccer, baseball and softball, yelling out his iconic “BOOOOOOMBAZZZZOOOOO” or “GOOOOOOLLAAAAAAZZZZZZOOOOOOO” along with Spanish broadcasting for his Trojans football on the ESPNLA app and CSUSB Coyotes Athletics in Spanish. You can also find him on Tik Tok, Instagram and X creating videos in Spanish about his favorite LA teams and interviewing high school athletes after games.
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