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Federico Pasquali

Federico was born in Rome. Sociologist, communication expert, assistant professor at La Sapienza University, writer and sports journalist. He loves sport, good books, food, wine and Italy.

Rino Tommasi, a true monument of Italian sports journalism, passed away on January 8. The great Rino, born 90 years ago in Verona, was for decades the most famous voice and television face of boxing and tennis matches. He was a living encyclopedia, in the days when the Internet and Wikipedia did not exist he could recount by heart anecdotes, data,...

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There is only one sport in the world where to wear a particular jersey number you have to be the star of the team. The person who wears that number is the brains of the team, the player with the most imagination, the most class, often even considered a genius. The sport we are talking about is soccer, which has a worldwide fan following estimated a...

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For almost twenty years, Italy has been in love with a little girl who has a very famous last name: Ferrari. Like the “red fireball,” the world's most beloved racing car, the less than five-foot-tall athlete has enchanted fans around the world with her feats. We are talking about Vanessa Ferrari, the greatest Italian gymnast of all time who last Oc...

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The emotions that sport can offer are most often unattainable, because sport is synonymous with challenge, with oneself and especially with others. A basket, a goal, a point scored at the last second of a match, or an athlete's victory by a hundredth of a second in an athletic or swimming race, a sprint victory in cycling or an overtaking pass at t...

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On February 14, 2004, the lifeless body of Marco Pantani, widely considered the greatest cyclist of the late last century, was found in a room of a residence in Rimini, the famous tourist resort in Emilia Romagna. Around the end of the last millennium, Pantani was one of the most famous sportsmen in the world, not only in Italy and Europe, where cy...

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Italy closes the Summer Olympic Games once again with an extraordinary result. Like three years ago in Tokyo, the Azzurri won 40 medals in Paris, taking ninth place overall in the medal table, thus fourth in Europe behind France, the organizing nation, the Netherlands and Great Britain. A success that had been announced by the Italian Olympic Commi...

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At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Italy stunned the world by winning 40 medals, a record for the Azzurri since they have been participating in the Olympics. Above all, it amazed with its five victories in athletics, the queen of Olympic sports. From July 26, in Paris, for the third time in history, athletes fr...

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In the more than 100-year history of professional tennis, no Italian man or woman has ever reached number one in the world rankings. Tennis, which came to Italy thanks to a few English gentlemen in the late 1800s who did not want to give up their passion for the game that had become very popular in Anglo-Saxon high society, has been one of the most...

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Athletics is the noblest and purest expression of sport, and its performers, namely the athletes, are as beautiful as can be admired during competitions. Running, jumping and throwing, every competition conveys strong emotions. Then there is also the fascination of a stadium where at the same time there are athletes who pole vault over 6 meters, wh...

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There are sporting feats that become legendary because they are truly extraordinary and unrepeatable. These are not always stories related to exhilarating victories by a great champion or, for example, an underdog athlete or team before a major final that then manages to win an unexpected victory. There are indeed many sporting feats that remain fo...

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There is an Italian girl who for many years has been compared to Queen Atlanna, the character played by Nicole Kidman in Aquaman, the successful film directed by James Wan. Her name is Alessia Zecchini, she is 31 years old, born in Rome, and is a diver by profession. Alessia is a kind of mermaid who descends into the abyss with incredible ease and...

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Gigi Riva left us last January 22, on the threshold of his eightieth birthday. A heart attack stopped the big heart he had causing a real shock to all the Italian people. "Rombo di Tuono," as he was nicknamed by Italy's greatest sports journalist, Gianni Brera, had not only been a great footballer. He was the greatest of all, the most loved by all,...

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