Maurizio Mosca

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

Career

In printed paper

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.