When Alan Green ended his interview with Atlanta United president Darren Eales, the veteran BBC broadcaster did not think for one second that it would lead to a commentary job with the MLS club.

Not least because it was Green who was the interviewer - and not Eales.

Last October Green interviewed Eales on his long-running BBC World Service programme World Football and so impressed was Eales with the Northern Irishman's knowledge of, and passion for, MLS that he ended up offering him a role to become Atlanta's play-by-play commentator.

Green will begin his role in June following the end of his BBC Radio Five Live duties this season, culminating in the Champions League final in Cardiff - and the 64-year-old cannot wait to get started.

As he puts it: "I feel I've put my fingers in an electric socket with Atlanta and have had a surge of electricity."