NASHVILLE, TN - On Thursday, SixOneFive Soccer's Ben Wright was announced as The Nashville Scene's Best of Nashville 2025 Readers' Poll.
SixOneFive Soccer's Valair Shabilla also finished in the top three of vote-getters, behind Jim Wyatt (TennesseeTitans.com) and tied with Buck Reising (AtoZSports).
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According to The Scene, "tens of thousands of Nashvillians cast hundreds of thousands of votes for the best artists, restaurants, services, athletes, performers and institutions in the city." The 2025 Best Of Nashville awards are the 37th-annual edition of the poll.
This is the second-consecutive year in which Wright has earned the top spot after taking home the award in 2024. Wright has covered Nashville SC since 2018, co-founding the Speedway Soccer podcast at the start of Nashville's time in the USL Championship and developing written content, before eventually moving to Broadway Sports Media in 2020. Wright has also freelanced with MLSSoccer.com, Backheeled, GiveMeSport and SoccerAmerica.
Shabilla has covered soccer in Music City since 2019, when he helped start the Pharmaceutical Soccer podcast after Nashville SC's first season in the USL Championship. In 2022, Shabilla joined Broadway Sports Media and has been a credentialed member of the Nashville SC press corps ever since.
In January of 2025, Wright and Shabilla launched SixOneFive Soccer, along with Chris Ivey, to provide focused, in-depth coverage of Nashville soccer. The site has been powered by a dedicated base of subscribers, gaining over 600 members in the first year and benefiting from a vibrant, energetic community.
