Maurizio Mosca

“Ah, come gioca Del Piero!” ("Ah, how plays Del Piero!")

— Famous exclamation about the talent of Alessandro Del Piero, Maurizio Mosca

Maurizio Mosca
Born Maurizio Mosca
(1940-06-24)June 24, 1940
Rome, Italy
Died 3 April 2010(2010-04-03) (aged 69)
Pavia, Italy
Nationality Italian
Occupation Sports journalist, TV presenter
Religion Roman Catholic

Maurizio Mosca (Rome, June 24, 1940 - Pavia, April 3, 2010) was an Italian sports journalist and TV presenter.[1]

Career

In printed paper

Zico in 2009 as manager of PFC CSKA Moscow, in 1983 with Mosca, he had a very hard discussion
Arrigo Sacchi, one of the most favourite coaches of Maurizio Mosca

Son of the humorist, journalist and writer Giovanni Mosca, and brother of Antonello, Benedetto and the writer Paolo Mosca, Maurizio Mosca began working for the newspaper La Notte in Milan before moving to the Gazzetta dello Sport, which has been tested for twenty years as editor in chief and where he also served as the interim director for two years. In 1983, the Journal publishes an interview with the Brazilian Zico, world-famous soccer star: it's a scoop, because Zico has never granted any interviews with Italian newspapers; Mosca says that it has been possible thanks to the friendship that binds him to the footballer.

Some time after, Mosca was host to the Il Processo del Lunedì (The Process on Monday), the TV broadcast of Aldo Biscardi: Zico is also in the program. Biscardi asks to Zico how he became a friend of Maurizio Mosca, and the Brazilian responds: "I don't know this man". Maurizio Mosca's career ends with the Gazzetta dello Sport in that time. Mosca was forced to leave the newspaper and following Mosca claim to be the victim of a "plot" because he is considered "dangerous" by some characters of the national football system.

TV programs

After appearing on TV as a commentator at the Domenica Sportiva (Sun Sports) since 1969, began working regularly in television in 1979, making his debut as host of a sports program of a regional TV channel in Milan. Since then he has participated in many televisions and radio, almost always on football, both regionally and nationally.

After his removal from the press, Mosca began to collaborate on the burgeoning private TV sports programs, eager to grab professionals. Obvious that Mosca, which had attended the main floors of the "Gazzetta", had more opportunities to get in light.

The end of the eighties, with the progressive development of the editorial offices of Fininvest see him engaged first as a shoulder of Cesare Cadeo in the transmission Calciomania, aired on Italia 1.

During the transmission, in addition to expressing opinions, more or less agree, Mosca made the protagonist of goliardic makeshift costumed, inspired by the latest news from the world of football, celebrated his entrance on stage dressed in an apron of housewife and holding a Flemish of tagliatelle at the period of the "Case Lipopill" (when the players Andrea Carnevale and Angelo Peruzzi had charged their positive doping control the hiring of an anorectic drug lipopill, precisely, to "remedy" to a meal of tagliatelle occurred at the home of mom Peruzzi).

These are the years of the great A.C. Milan team coached by Arrigo Sacchi and illuminated by the magics of the dutchs Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard and Mosca becomes a supporter of the "game to zone" and the "total football", his "caricature" has been successful, so as to guarantee him a job as a regular guest and opinionist in Guida al Campionato (Guide to the Championship), on air in Sunday led by a young Sandro Piccinini and Mosca during which he specialized in risky bets, such as "forecast by pendulum".

One of the programs with a broader audience, which was attended was the L'Appello del Martedì (The appeal of the Tuesday), during which transmission he appeared on stage dressed in robes and headgear as a magistrate, and where, in addition to mark the times and rhythms of the televised debate will take active part.

Later he also participated in other programs: Controcampo, Zitti e Mosca, La Mosca al naso and he had a column in the program "Studio Sport", called Ce l'ho con... (I blame...) through which he expressed, as can be understood by the eloquent title, his disappointment towards a particular character of the sports landscape.

In 2002 he conducted the TV show Senza Rete (Without Net), broadcast on Rete 4, along with Paolo Liguori, also participated in this broadcast Monica Vanali and Benedetta Massola. Maurizio Mosca is then passed to conduct a television football program popular in Lombardy broadcast on Antenna 3.

The May 11, 2005, Mosca was present as guest on the program Carta Straccia aired on Antenna 3 and conducted by Roberto Poletti. The theme of the evening was the complaint by Consumers Association (CODACONS) against the wrestling shows on TV. During the broadcast, in that occasion, Mosca entertains the public, improvising an improbable match with wrestlers from a local federation and a transvestite.

Mosca has also participated in the movie Paparazzi by Neri Parenti in 1998 and Tifosi in 1999, playing himself, and he wrote an autobiographical book titled La vita é rotonda... come un pallone da calcio (Life is round... as a soccer ball), published by Rizzoli in 2001.

Illness and death

Sick for a long time, he died in the morning of April 3, 2010 at San Matteo Hospital in Pavia. Two days before his death, on Sport Mediaset were published his latest article, regarding the dispute occurred between José Mourinho and Mario Balotelli, in this article, Mosca asked the reintegration of Mario Balotelli in Inter and the peace between the two. Clarification that then occurred.[2]

Television and radio programs

National TV

Regional TV

Radio

Filmography

Discography

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Mediaset, The died of M.Mosca
  2. ↑ Latest Article
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