Leonardo Gagliano Neto was a Brazilian radio announcer and sports commentator. In 1938 he made history in Brazilian communications, at that year's
Football World Cup in
France as Brazil's Radio Club sports commentator. Through
radio sets as well as
loudspeakers installed in
park
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s and public thoroughfares throughout the country, he thrilled the Brazilian population with their first nationwide transatlantic live radio
broadcast
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.
* http://terceirotempo.bol.uol.com.br/que-fim-levou/gagliano-neto-4179
* http://guiadoscuriosos.com.br/blog/2014/02/11/a-historia-de-gagliano-neto-o-primeiro-speaker-brasileiro-em-copas-do-mundo/
Brazilian journalists
Brazilian people of Italian descent
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