Gabriele Marcotti

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Gabriele Marcotti (born July 28, 1973 in Milan) is an Italian sports journalist and presenter who has earned respect for his passionate views and encyclopaedic knowledge of world football, especially the Premiership and Serie A.

Born in Italy and now based in London, he was raised in Chicago, Poland, Germany, New York and Japan. He is also fluent in Italian, English, German and Japanese. Marcotti obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York.

Marcotti is known in the US for his work in Sports Illustrated, he also writes for the The Times in England and The Sunday Herald in Scotland, having in the past written for The Daily Mail and The Financial Times. In Italy he is a columnist for La Stampa and Il Corriere dello Sport.

Marcotti is currently a pundit for talkSPORT radio, (usually Sunday 4pm-8pm and Monday 7pm-10pm although he is occasionally replaced without much prior warning), and is often on Bravo and Setanta Sports' coverage of Serie A football matches. He is sometimes interviewed on Sky Sports News, particularly when big stories break on Italian football such as the 2006 match-fixing scandal.

Marcotti supports Monza, though he admits that, as a boy, he was an Inter fan. He is also a Chelsea season ticket holder.

Marcotti has co-written two books: Paolo Di Canio's autobiography (1999) and The Italian Job, written in conjunction with Gianluca Vialli. The Italian Job was nominated for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.