Eugène Saccomano (23 September 1936 – 7 October 2019) was a French radio journalist and non-fiction author.
Biography Eugène Saccomano was born on 23 September 1936 in Marseille, southern France.Grégoire Leménager, Eugène Saccomano, le journaliste sportif qui préfère Giono à Zidane, Le Nouvel Observateur, 21 January 2015
Saccomano started his career as a journalist for Le Provençal. In 1959, he published Bandits à Marseille, a book about thugs in Marseille.Pierre de Boishue, Saccomano : «Borsalino m’a rapporté 30 000 francs», Le Figaro, 4 December 2007 The book was adapted into the 1970 film Borsalino starring Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
He became a radio journalist for Europe 1 in 1970. He focused on sports, especially football. In 2001, he joined RTL, another radio station. In 2012, he joined Sport365, a sports TV channel. He wrote his autobiography, Je refais le match, in 2005.
Bibliography Bandits à Marseille (Omnibus, 1959). Berlusconi, le dossier vérité (Éditions no 1, 1994). Goncourt 1932 (Paris: Flammarion, 1999). Je refais le match (Paris: Plon, 2005). Les Stars de l'euro 2008 (Éditions Numéro 1, 2008). Une romance marseillaise (Buchet Chastel, 2009). Les stars de la Coupe du Monde 2010 (Éditions Numéro 1, 2010). Le roman noir des Bleus (Éditions de la Martinière, 2010). Céline coupé en deux (Le Castor astral, 2013).
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