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Matteo M. Munno

First the rhythm, then the depth. Sport is my lens.

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About

Foreword

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I'm a professional journalist, trained at the Urbino School of Journalism, with my apprenticeship in local newspapers. I took my first steps on the sports desk at La Repubblica, worked at Il Sole 24 Ore and in the corporate worlds of Enel and BIP, where I now handle editorial content across different formats. I still write about sport, collaborating with outlets like Domani, but I use it to look at something else: cultural phenomena, everyday life, the problems a match, or life itself, lets us glimpse without often giving us the time to bring them into focus. I do it beyond the page too: through podcasts, video productions (Connected, Eyes Everywhere, Echoes of Tomorrow) and books (Underdog. Storie di sfavoriti e altre favole meravigliose, A Wrestling Tale).

A match ends in ninety minutes. What it tells us lasts much longer.
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Articles

STOKE-ON-TRENT (UK), 15 OCTOBER 2026

SportSociety

Forget Me Knot: il calcio come risposta al dolore di un figlio che non c'è più

When perinatal loss stays invisible, a football can become a way to talk about it.

In England, amateur teams have formed for fathers and relatives who lost a child during pregnancy or after birth: first they talk, then they play. In Italy, warns the CiaoLapo Foundation, the loss risks staying "doubly invisible". Published for World Perinatal Loss Awareness Day.

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Sidebar

  • CREMONA (IT), 25 JULY 2026

    SportInclusion

    «La pista è per tutti»: il record di Lisa Camilleri, prima pilota del motociclismo paralimpico italiano

    Cremona hosts the closing round of the Italian Paralympic motorcycling championship, organised by the Di.Di. Diversamente Disabili ONLUS, and Lisa Camilleri is the first woman to take part. A story of asphalt and track, where every milestone, she says, "has immense value".

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  • LAS VEGAS (US), 17 DECEMBER 2025

    SportSociety

    Da meme a messaggero: Steven Asplund, il fighter UFC che ha messo al tappeto il bullismo

    He lost about 100 kilos to chase a career in mixed martial arts and was mocked on social media before the fight. After winning his UFC debut in Las Vegas, he took the microphone and spoke to every child who is .

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Archive

  • ÖVERKALIX (SE), 19 MARCH 2026

    Sport

    L'impresa di Giulio Pacchioni, unico italiano a chiudere l'ultra maratona artica nel 2026: «Avere un sogno è il passo per realizzarlo»

    Giulio Pacchioni, from Aprilia, is the only Italian to finish the 2026 Lapland Arctic Ultra: 185 kilometres in 91 hours, dragging a 30-kilo sled, with a knee that kept asking him to stop. For him, dreaming "is not a finish line, it's a first step toward it".

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  • PITTSBURGH (US), 17 FEBRUARY 2026

    SportSociety

    «Torna a casa tua, arriva l'Ice»: l'ombra degli abusi psicologici agita il basket universitario Usa

    Six former players on the University of Pittsburgh women's basketball team accuse coach Tory Verdi of repeated , and the university of failing to step in. While the NCAA celebrates a historic step toward economic equity, the system meant to protect these athletes shows deep cracks.

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  • ROSARIO (AR), 27 NOVEMBER 2025

    SportSociety

    Che valore ha una vittoria se non è riconosciuta dagli avversari: quelli che rifiutano il "pasillo de honor"

    In Argentina, Estudiantes players turned their backs during the "pasillo de honor" for Rosario Central, Liga champions with a title decided at the table a few days earlier. It is not the first time the ritual of celebrating winners turns into an act of disobedience.

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  • APRILIA (IT), 24 NOVEMBER 2025

    Sport

    Un sogno chiamato Lapponia: l'ultramaratona artica di Giulio Pacchioni

    Each March the Lapland Arctic Ultra tests the limits of endurance: complete self-sufficiency, over 185 kilometres of snow and sub-zero temperatures. Giulio Pacchioni is not a professional and launched a crowdfunding campaign to take part. He tells how he is preparing and what the challenge means.

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  • NAILSWORTH (UK), 4 NOVEMBER 2025

    SportSociety

    Calcio alleato della salute mentale: l'esperimento inglese che prescrive le partite come cura

    Forest Green Rovers, recognised by the UN as the first carbon-neutral football club, is prescribing football as a cure. In Gloucestershire, the "Football on Prescription" programme welcomes patients to the stadium and to walking football, to ease .

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  • BAURU (BR), 29 JUNE 2018

    SportSociety

    Il bimbo che da solo si è disegnato l'album

    In Bauru, Brazil, Pedro is 8 and his mother, a cashier, can't afford to buy him the sticker album. So he draws his own: 126 stickers out of 682, in Panini's style, with Neymar, Messi, national team crests and even the title page. The notebook reached Panini's Mexican office, which promised him a surprise.

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  • ITALY, 18 JULY 2018

    Sport

    Poeti, serpenti e spermatozoi: le follie del marketing del calcio

    In summer 2018, Italian clubs sell kits and season tickets through advertising campaigns. Inter turns to Dante, Empoli to Leonardo, in Livorno a fan designs the kit and Napoli lands on Amazon. Sampdoria tops them all by painting a spermatozoon in the club's colours.

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Articles

Books

ITALY, 9 OCTOBER 2026

SportSociety

A Wrestling Tale

Twenty biographies to understand why wrestling tells society's story so well.

Wrestling is not just a show, and not just a sport: it is a mirror onto which eras, cultures and geopolitical tensions have projected themselves in a language that reaches everyone. With WWE landing on Netflix, Italy is living a new season of passion. Twenty biographies, from the Fifties to the early Nineties: Hulk Hogan's yellow and red tank top, Bret Hart's mirrored sunglasses, André the Giant's gentle-giant frame.

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A Wrestling Tale

ITALY, 2021

Sport

Underdog

Storie di sfavoriti e altre favole meravigliose. Special mention at the Premio Invictus.

In the age of Federer, LeBron and Messi, we may have lost the habit of celebrating the others: those who don't win, or who win when nobody expects it. Twelve sports fairy tales: Rehhagel's Kaiserslautern, Ranieri's Leicester, Ivanisevic at Wimbledon, LeMond at the 1986 Tour, up to Villanova's exploit in college basketball.

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Underdog

Other media

  • ITALY, 17 MARCH 2025

    TechnologySociety

    Eyes Everywhere

    A blackout puts millions at risk and frames a journey into the hidden cost of a hyper-connected world: artificial intelligence, smart cities, the space economy, and the ever thinner line between safety and control. Directed by Simona Calo, with Christopher Lambert, Francesca Inaudi and Fortunato Cerlino. I worked on the production and on writing the content covered.

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  • ITALY, 23 FEBRUARY 2024

    TechnologySociety

    Connected

    BIP's first documentary on artificial intelligence tells the story by blending fiction and expert insight. Directed by Simona Calo, it is available on Prime Video and Apple TV. I worked on the production and on writing the content covered.

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  • ITALY, 2022

    Society

    Caffè Macchiato

    A podcast that weaves personal stories together with journeys made inside a company, showing how the cross-pollination between the two never stops. I'm its voice and wrote part of the scripts.

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Books

Press

Reviews

  • La Verità

    ITALY, 29 OCTOBER 2026

    SportSociety

    Bruno Sammartino, Hulk Hogan e gli altri: la storia del wrestling in 20 ritratti

    La Verità gives A Wrestling Tale an extended feature: twenty biographies, from Bruno Sammartino to Hulk Hogan, rereading the history of wrestling through the Cold War, national identities and popular culture. The ring as a mirror of the world outside the ropes, for those who already own an Undertaker shirt and for newcomers, perhaps after WWE's arrival on Netflix.

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  • Domani

    ITALY, 12 OCTOBER 2026

    SportSociety

    Il wrestling, dove la finzione è vera: se il ring racconta il potere

    Domani reviews A Wrestling Tale as a journey into deep America, where heroes and villains, masks, giants and warriors embody the fears, desires and values of the audience. A history of the discipline and its protagonists, from folk heroes to Hulk Hogan, which the reviewer also reads as a key to understanding the American vote.

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In brief