My Ali, tribute to Gianni Minà: the interview for Sky Buffa tells

Gianni Minà: an extraordinary biography

Try to reconstruct the human events of which he was the protagonist in life Gianni Mina it is at least as nonsensical as trying to set up the plot of his biography. Sifting through this man’s written memoirs, born to a family of Sicilian originswho left as a boy in shorts from a neighborhood of Torinoone can only paraphrase Osvaldo Soriano, the father of sports literature, to describe the incredible trajectory that led Minà to follow, from envoyeight soccer world championships, seven olympic games, dozens of boxing world championships. Without prejudicearmed with a smile that oozed empathy, he conquered heads of state and sports champions, Nobel prizes and movie stars, the Pope and pop stars alike.

The story of a generation of sports

With intelligence and simplicity, with curious glances and common man questions,

told a generation and a century: Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Fidel Castro and Adriano Celentano; Rocco and Brera. De Niro, García Márquez and Sergio Leone; Diego Armando Maradona; Pietro Mennea, Mina, Gianni Morandi, Emil Zátopek and Tommie Smith, Jorge Amado, Gillespie and Chet Baker; Pertini and Pope Wojtyla. Look online for the famous gag with Massimo Troisi in the episode of Blitz with Pino Daniele and the interview to celebrate the Napoli championship. Memorable fragments of television that still give a good mood today. Witness of his timeand as a reflection of our own, told the history of the post-war period, starting from sports, innovating the language of television, with its documentaries, interviews, reportages. Perhaps there hasn’t been, in the history of Italian journalism, anyone who has been able to do it like him, but he will certainly remain forever, one of the best known and loved faces of our TV.

Tribute to Gianni Minà

A little over two months after his death, we re-propose in an unedited version the interview carried out on November 3, 2016, in preparation for the #SkyBuffaRacconta miniseries dedicated to Muhammad Ali. His way of narrating, which has inspired many of us, is a witness that we collect from a distant era, when only the meaning of every gesture still mattered. A tribute to him and to all that he has left us, starting from the story of the infamous first time she met “The Greatest”. The greatest sports champion of all time, on the anniversary of his death.

My Ali: Tribute to Gianni Minàprogramming on Sky

Saturday June 3rd

• Ore 11.15: on Sky Sports One
• Ore 13.00: are Sky Sport Arena

Federico Buffa Talks

The second episode of the new original production by Sky Sport is also dedicated to Gianni Minà: “Federico Buffa Talks”, airing from Friday June 9th on Sky and streaming on NOW, where in addition to the memory of the great journalist, we will talk about Grande Inter, Abebe Bikila, LeBron James and his new heir, Victor Wembanyama. In the second episode, airing from Thursday June 15space for the big names in sport, with an interview with Filip Tortu: stories, memories and emotions about the life of this great protagonist of the world of sport, Olympic champion of the 4×100 meters relay at the Tokyo 2020 Games. Also available on demand.