Eugène Saccomano
# Eugène Saccomano

Eugène Saccomano (23 September 1936 – 7 October 2019) was a French radio journalist and non-fiction author.

## Biography

Eugène Saccomano was born on 23 September 1936 in Marseille, southern France.

Saccomano started his career as a journalist for Le Provençal. In 1959, he published Bandits à Marseille, a book about thugs in Marseille. The book was adapted into the 1970 film Borsalino starring Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

He became a radio journalist for Europe 1 in 1970. He focused on sports, especially football. In 2001, he joined RTL, another radio station. In 2012, he joined Sport365, a sports TV channel. He wrote his autobiography, Je refais le match, in 2005.

