Wayne Rooney returns to Punditry this week, after he was fired by Plymouth in December.
The Manchester United icon has previously worked as an expert for Sky Sports and TNT sports, while he has also been shown on BBC on Match of the Day.
It is another broadcaster that the former attacker will work for, but has announced that he will join Amazon Prime as an expert to work on their Champions League reporting.
Rooney's first appearance will be on Tuesday, while he passes the microphone during the first stage of the Play-off match of Manchester City against Real Madrid. The game is played in the Etihad, with the return change that will take place in Spain next week.
The broadcaster has Alan Shearer and Daniel Sturridge among their experts, while Frank Lampard was shown on cover earlier this season before he became a manager of Coventry.
Every week, Amazon shows the top match of the Tuesday of the competition, because they share Champions League rights with TNT Sports – and now they will have a new man to stimulate the shows.
Rooney was dismissed in December by supervising only four wins in 23 league games.
That came after he was fired by Birmingham last year after a spell of 83 days that brought nine defeats in 15 games.
He previously managed Derby County and MLS side DC United and while he received compliments for his work with the Rams, Rooney won only 45 of his 178 games as a manager in a ratio of 25.3 percent.
Yet he was praised for his honesty while previously worked as an expert, especially when it came to covering the former Side United.
Amazon announced his appointment on social media with a post -reading: 'Wayne Rooney joins #uclonprime! The legend of England and Man Utd will make his excellent debut about Man City V Real Madrid, live on Tuesday from 6:30 pm! '
They also shared a compilation of some of the best moments of Rooney in the Champions League – he won the competition ever and scored 30 goals in 85 performances.
Meanwhile, reports emerged last month that Rooney was talking about the participation of the competition of the day as a regular expert next season.
It followed the confirmation of Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman and Logan as hosts after the departure of Gary Lineker at the end of the season as part of a Rota of three people.
The 39-year-old joined De Stok to the football podcast, where he spoke about his future in coaching fourteen days ago.
'I would like to go back [to management]”He said. “But it should be the right club.
“I'm not in a huge hurry to go back. There are several things I look at to try to get involved … unless something was absolutely the right thing to do.
'Every club I have been to, I have brought myself into a really challenging situation. I have had some great experiences, good, bad (s), you have always dropped that. '
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