Big loss in the world of journalism. Gianni Minà died at the age of 84: He watched eight World Cups, seven Olympic Games and countless world boxing championships. Especially close to Muhammad Ali, with whom he began a long friendship. Boxing was his great sporting passion: the show Faces full of fists, created for Rai, is famous.
Muhammad Ali tells of Gianni Minà: “Myth and fascination of the man who carried the other America on his shoulders”
by Gianni Minà March 27, 2023
Born in Turin on May 17, 1938, he began his career as a journalist in 1959 at Tuttosport (of which he was director from 1996 to 1998). In 1960 he made his debut at Rai, where he worked on the production of sports reports for the Olympic Games in Rome. After ending up at “Sprint”, a sports magazine by Maurizio Barendson, he worked on documentaries and research for numerous programs from 1965, including “Tv7”, “AZ, un fact how and why”, “Dribbling”, “Odeon” . Everything that makes a show” and “Gulliver”.
Trapattoni and the interview with Minà: “And yet I am mine”
by Gianni Minà March 27, 2023
With Renzo Arbore and Maurizio Barendson he founded ‘L’altra Domenica’. In 1976 he was hired by ‘Tg2’ directed by Andrea Barbato. In 1981 he won the “Premio Saint Vincent” as the best television journalist of the year. After collaborating with Giovanni Minoli on Mixer, he made his debut as the presenter of Blitz, a raid program he also authored that has featured guests such as Eduardo De Filippo, Federico Fellini, Jane Fonda, Enzo Ferrari, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Muhammad Wings.
Gianni Minà, 80 years old and a long adventure: “I told the world with the voices of the protagonists”
Minà followed eight World Cups and seven Olympic Games, as well as dozens of world boxing championships, including the historic ones from the time of Muhammad Ali. In 1987, Minà became world famous for a 16-hour interview with Fidel Castro, the President of Cuba, for a documentary film that became a book: the report entitled Fidel Tells Che.