Gianni Brera

The Profile

Italian sports journalist and writer noted for a literary approach to sports reportage and for his influential book 'Storia Critica del Calcio Italiano'.

Known for elevating sports journalism with a distinctive style, for coining neologisms and nicknames that entered sports language, and for critical analyses of Italian football history and tactics.

The review praises Gianni Brera's Storia Critica del Calcio Italiano for elevating sports journalism to literature. It highlights Brera's critical approach to tactics, rich anecdotes, lasting neologisms and useful statistics. An afterword by Giuseppe Signori updates the history to 1998.