Bio

It all began in the early Seventies, in Palermo, Italy, when I was just  about 5 or 6 years old. My father Salvatore, who was a journalist, would often take me to his workplace, Il Giornale di Sicilia, and we'd stay there until 2 am, waiting for the newspaper to roll out of the printing press.

 

The excitement to know the news before everybody else in town, the deafening sound of the printing works, the smell of the liquified lead flowing through the linotype machines, they all contributed to get that passion inside me early in life.

 

I knew I was going to be a journalist.
 

Fast forward to New York City, where I moved in 1985 when I was a 20-year old, I worked as a reporter and editor for the Italian daily newspaper Il Progresso. I was also a contributing writer from New York for Il Giornale di Sicilia and the news agency Italpress. Then, in 1996, I became the sport editor for America Oggi, the daily Italian newspaper in New York City.

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I kept writing for other Italian news outlets, too, such as the weekly Economy, and later I became a senior writer and editor for Panorama, the most sold weekly magazine in Italy.


In 2006, I founded Il Sole d'Italia, a bilingual Italian and Spanish magazine printed in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. In 2010 I was awarded the "Premio Italia-Mexico".


In 2015 I joined again America Oggi; I was in charge of the front page. Unfortunately, the newspaper suspended publication in February 2022 due to the Covid crisis.

 
 

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some
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PUBLISHED IN PANORAMA

Tutte le pupe dei narcos sudamericani

Coca messicana per le 'ndrine

Haiti, resa dei conti per Aristide

Prima ti sposo (per finta) e intanto ti rovino

Grandi elettori, piccoli stati

Lady Liberty si fa più bella

A cena dai Warhol: maiali e iguane

Segni particolari: un jukebox nelle tasche

Paura di brogli nell'urna elettronica

Duello su una montagna di dollari

Folli notti a New York

Le donne, i cavalier, le cause, gli autori

Florence, l'Alcatraz del Terzo millennio

Italiani all'estero, come voteranno

Che cos'è l'eleganza? Amare la vita e il jet set

Manhattan, il Moma è tornato

Protagonisti: Robert Redford.  Io, marito in manette

New York Times, New York Crisis

Patricia Cornwell: "Metto le mani nei morti"

Sofia Vergara, la colombiana dello zio Tom

Nella fabbrica di campioni giganti voluta da Mao

Salvate i pornificati

Attento iPod, ti acchiappiamo

PUBLISHED IN

IL SOLE D'ITALIA

Il Messico nel cuore

Intervista esclusiva a Renzo Arbore.

Sgarbi messicani

Intervista esclusiva.
Il più celebre critico d’arte d’Italia nella terra dei Maya e degli Aztechi. Scopriamo perché.

Red Ronnie:
«Te lo do io il Messico»

Intervista esclusiva e semiseria.
Il popolare conduttore televisivo visita la Terra dei Maya.
E dopo avere percorso duemila chilometri dà qualche dritta ai turisti italiani. Dai «topes» alle «fajitas». Fino al «chile habanero».

 
 

Passion
for
sports,
and
much more

I'm a US certified soccer coach because "il calcio" is in my DNA. Before moving to the US and becoming a journalist, I played for many years in Italy for Palermo's youth. My coach was Zdenek Zeman, who then became the iconic manager of Roma, Lazio, and many other Serie A teams. I owe Mister Zeman so much, and his teachings are always present whenever I write about soccer - and when I coach soccer.

 

I also like to keep in shape with powerlifting and martial arts. Throughout the years I trained Judo, Tae-kwon-do and other combat sports. As the ancient Romans said... Mens sana in corpore sano!

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I have many other interests and creative pursuits in life. I love playing chess and wind instruments (baroque recorder, sax, ewi), I'm fascinated by crypto and artificial intelligence, I enjoy reading philosophy and mastering new skills. Life is unlimited - but not our lifetime - so let's keep learning as much as possible!