Bruno Pizzul is an Italian

Italy

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 journalist

Journalist

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 and a former professional football player. He is best known for being the TV commentator

Sports commentator

In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

 of matches involving the Italy national football team

Italy national football team

The Italy National Football Team , represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation , the governing body for football in Italy. Italy is the second most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having won four titles , just one fewer than...

 from 1986 to 2002.

Biography and career

Born in Udine

Udine

Udine is a city and comune in northeastern Italy, in the middle of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic sea and the Alps , less than 40 km from the Slovenian border. Its population was 99,439 in 2009, and that of its urban area was 175,000.- History :Udine is the historical...

, he started his footballer career in an amateur club of Cormons

Cormons

Cormons is a comune in the Province of Gorizia in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 45 km northwest of Trieste and about 12 km west of Gorizia, on the border with Slovenia...

, a town in the Province of Gorizia

Province of Gorizia

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. From the end of 1950s to the beginnings of 1960s he played as a professional midfielder

Midfielder

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 for Pro Gorizia

A.S. Pro Gorizia

Associazione Sportiva Pro Gorizia is an Italian association football club located in Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It currently plays in Promozione. Its colors are blue and white.The club was founded in 1919 and spend 2 seasons in Serie B....

, Catania

Calcio Catania

Calcio Catania is an Italian football club founded in 1908 and based in Catania, Sicily. The club has spent much of its history in Serie B, gaining promotion to Italy's top league Serie A five times...

, Ischia

A.S.D. Ischia Isolaverde

The Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Ischia Isolaverde is an Italian association football club located in Ischia, Campania. It currently plays in Serie D...

 and Cremonese

U.S. Cremonese

Unione Sportiva Cremonese is an Italian football club, based in Cremona. The club was founded in 1903. Cremonese played the 2005/2006 season in Serie B, having won Serie C1/A the previous season. However, in the 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Cremonese came out twenty-first, being therefore relegated...

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Graduated in jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

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, in 1969 he was hired in RAI

RAI

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, the Italian public service broadcaster, as sports commentator. The first match commented was Juventus

Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

-Bologna

Bologna F.C. 1909

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 of 1969-70 Coppa Italia

Coppa Italia

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 and the first international match was the UEFA Euro 1972 Final

UEFA Euro 1972 Final

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 (USSR-West Germany

Germany national football team

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). In 1986, starting with the Mexican FIFA World Cup

1986 FIFA World Cup

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, he became the official commentator of Italy national football team

Italy national football team

The Italy National Football Team , represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation , the governing body for football in Italy. Italy is the second most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having won four titles , just one fewer than...

, succeeding to Nando Martellini.

He kept this role until 21 August 2002, when he commented his last match of Italy, in a friendly

Exhibition game

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 againist Slovenia

Slovenia national football team

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, played in Trieste

Trieste

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 and lost by the Azzurri 0-1. After his official leave-taking from RAI, in 2007 Pizzul commented for La 7 the replicas of Italian matches at 2006 FIFA World Cup

2006 FIFA World Cup

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 and several matches of 2007-08 Coppa Italia.

Cinema

Bruno Pizzul played the role of himself in the Italian 1974 film L'arbitro (i.e. The Referee), directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico

Luigi Filippo D'Amico

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, with Lando Buzzanca

Lando Buzzanca

Gerlando Buzzanca is an Italian comedy actor.He left high school in Palermo when he was 16 years old, and moved to Rome to pursue his dream of becoming an actor...

 and Joan Collins

Joan Collins

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. In 1996 he lent his voice in the final scenes of the film Fantozzi - Il ritorno, directed by Neri Parenti, with Paolo Villaggio

Paolo Villaggio

Paolo Villaggio is an Italian actor, writer, director and comedian.-Life:Villaggio was born in Genoa in 1932. His jobs included being a clerk for the Italsider steel major which inspired his character "Il ragioniere Fantozzi Ugo", "the accountant Ugo Fantozzi"...

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External links

• Images of Bruno Pizzul: in 1958 and in 1985 (on itwiki
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