What is this technician holding below the camera's view in this TV interview?

[Rive]

one camera view briefly showed this technician from the interviewing team

Are you sure that's not somebody just 'freeloading' on the interview? The cameraman does not seems to have the same kind of badge or whatever the technician has.

Have you ruled out the possibility of being part of the microphone the player is wearing?

I think you are right. Quite some equipment there, usually
Random link for an interview with headset

 

[berkeman]

Are you sure that's not somebody just 'freeloading' on the interview? The cameraman does not seems to have the same kind of badge or whatever the technician has.

At the end of the interview, the football player gave the headset to the technician with the beard and the cameraman and interviewer and technician seemed to be gathering together.

 

[Rive]

Then the only thing I can think of is, that there was too much noise there to do the interview without a headset: you can't hear the noise since all gear there had noise cancellation, except the ear of the player - and there was some glitch with the setup.