The journalist Mario Sconcerti has died
A well-known and authoritative face in the sports scene, he had been hospitalized in a clinic for a few days
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At sunset of the World Cup, those who until a few days ago followed and commented, Mario Sconcerti, master of Italian journalism and current columnist and first signature of Corriere della Sera , leaves.
It is a new mourning for sport in Italy, which a few hours after the death of Sinisa Mihajlovic loses another protagonist and in the most unexpected way. Sconcerti was in the hospital, but hospitalized for routine tests at the Roman polyclinic of Tor Vergata and the end came suddenly, so much so that the Corriere himself underlined that until yesterday he had given his contribution of ideas to the newspaper .
Sconcerti had just turned 74, born in 1948 in Florence , where over half a century ago he began his profession at Corriere dello Sport at a very young age, a newspaper of which he also became director in 1995 after having held this position for the first time at Secolo XIX. From cycling to football, from Gazzetta dello Sport to Repubblica, from TV to radio, Sconcerti has been the protagonist not only of the story of sport, but also of commentary and exegesis. He then broadened and explored many themes and reflections, also turning to philosophy and politics, in a vast book production, with works such as Totti's The Difference, from Meazza to Roberto Baggio, Baggio Wish You Descartes and I... or Goal history: Ages, men and numbers of the most beautiful sport in the world.
His passion for football, and for Fiorentina in particular, also took him to the other side of the barricade when in January 2001 he was entrusted with the position of general manager of the Cecchi Gori group, the company that controlled the Viola club. An experience that did not last long and ended with the resignation motivated by the new manager himself for "very different visions on the situation of the company" with the president Vittorio Cecchi Gori. A tear that did not erase the feelings for the purple team "I love it regardless".
Perhaps the only fixed point in a career in constant evolution and always at the highest levels. He arrived at Repubblica in 1979 and created the sports editorial staff there, working together with Gianni Brera and Gianni Mura, but years later, in 1987, he left Eugenio Scalfari's newspaper for the Gazzetta dello Sport, where he was deputy director of Candido Cannavò.
Then the first experience as director at Il Secolo and then the six years at the helm of Corriere dello Sport. From the press to TV, where he began working in the early 2000s, Sconcerti was able to quickly become a point of reference. Over a decade at Sky Sport and then the transition to Rai in 2016 and subsequently to Mediaset , always piercing the screen with his stories, his analyzes and his authority.
"You're the only one I follow, the only one who doesn't say bullshit", the patron of Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentis, told him a few years ago, among the first - of the many - to express his condolences.
