Farewell to Cesare Castellotti, historical voice of Turin football and face of 90° Minuto
Sports journalism mourns the passing of a professional who reported Juventus and Toro with rigour and passion for over twenty years.
Cesare Castellotti has died at the age of 86. A journalist, many regret his serious and compassionate style when reporting on Juventus and Torino matches.
He was the best-known face of the Turin broadcasts of 90° Minuto, the historic RAI programme that on Sundays showed highlights of the Serie A and Serie B matches, all played at 3pm.
The Toro fans, who have been living only on memories for some time now, as we read in the article by Massimo De Marzi online on Torinoggi, among the first to break the news not yet beaten by the agencies, have a date imprssed in their minds: 16 May 1976, the day of Torino's last Scudetto.
At Domenica sportiva - the programme that, like now, summarised the day's sporting events in late evening - on that historic day at the Stadio Comunale, Castellotti interviewed all the protagonists of the granata ride, from president Pianelli to bomber Felice Pulici and on to captain Cluadio Sala.
Castellotti left public television in 1999 to retire. "He was, at the RAI in Turin, first secretary of the editorial staff, then, for about 20 years, head of the sports nucleus, formed by Beppe Barletti, Franco Costa, Federico Calcagno and myself": this is how Carlo Nesti remembers his journalistic qualifications, we read in Torinoggi.
