Federico Buffa (born 28 July 1959 in

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, writer and television sportscaster. He studied sociology at

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in 1978. In 1984, he started as sportive journalist for the matches disputed by

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basket team and, from the 7h championship game, he shared the microphone together with the Italian journalist Flavio Tranquillo. In 1986 he graduated in Law at the

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with a dissertation on the sports employment contracts. In the same year he become a professional journalist and wrote his first article for Italian Magazine "Superbasket" (which has been published on September's Number). Two years later he began working as basketball agent and started his career as NBA's commentator for Italian TV. Since May 2014 he directed the ten-episode program titled ''Federico Buffa racconta Storie Mondiali'' ("Federico Buffa tells World Cup Stories") which was aired on Sky Sport TV. He still works as journalist for Sky Sport Italia and Milan Channel.

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Official Website
* http://www.libreriadellosport.it/libri/black_jesus_-_the_anthology.php * http://laverita.ilcannocchiale.it/post/1275112.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20110718161552/http://www.sky.it/tag/home/federico_buffa_1.html * http://www.tvblog.it/tag/federico+buffa {{DEFAULTSORT:Buffa, Federico 1959 births Living people Italian journalists Italian male journalists University of Milan alumni