53 years old, Neapolitan, professional journalist since 1991. He started his career at the age of 19 at the Rotopress news agency, the only one in Italy to deal exclusively with sports, signing the first articles in the magazine Canestro and on the pages of the weekly Sport Sud and Sport del Mezzogiorno.

Since 1989 he has coordinated the work of the newly founded Roman editorial team of Rotopress in view of the following year’s World Cup in Italy, covered by a correspondent for the Italian national team.

After a collaboration with the newspaper Roma, from 1991 to 2003 he worked for the Gazzetta dello Sport at the Neapolitan editorial office, following as a chronicler the events of Calcio Napoli, also dealing with basketball, volleyball, water polo, tennis, rugby, rowing; and conducting investigations on the situation of sport in Campania.

After finishing his experience in Gazzetta, he was for a year in 2004 responsible for the press office of Napoli Basket, a Serie A club and participant in the European Cup.

In 2005 he joined Repubblica, initially working at the Naples editorial office, where he worked on city news, politics, customs and society.

In 2009, the return to Sport, with the transfer to the central editorial office of Repubblica for mainly desk tasks. The writing activity continued with the editorial offices of Cultura, Spettacoli and the weekly Il Venerdì.

Per Repubblica was followed by by a Champions League envoy for two editions, the 2016 European Football Championship and the 2016 Sanremo Festival. He interviewed exclusively, among others, Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Jürgen Klopp, Jorge Valdano, the writer Elena Ferrante.

From September 2016 to February 2019 he was the head of the Sport section of Repubblica, paper and online, also curating the blog Puliciclone.

Currently he collaborates with the daily newspaper La Repubblica and its weekly Robinson and Venerdì; with the sports newspaper Corriere dello Sport-Stadio, with the weekly Vanity Fair and with the website of political-sports information Il Napolista.

He has published two novels: “Dove le strade non hanno nome” (East of the equator, 2013) and “La Grammatica del Bianco” (Rizzoli, 2014), for which he won the Bancarella Sport Selection Award and the Memo Geremia Prize. He has signed with the conductor Peppe Vessicchio the pop essay “Music makes tomatoes grow” (Rizzoli, 2017)

He was a journalist consultant for the documentary by Emanuela Audisio “Heysel – La notte del calcio” (2015).