Giovanni di Pillo Cause of Death: Full Details

Giovanni di Pillo was an Italian sports journalist and commentator who was born on August 24, 1955. He worked at TMC/LA7 where he was a commentator, commentating on GPs since the 90s.

He was also in charge of all the live broadcasts from 1998 to 2002 with respect to Superbike World Championship, Supersport World Championship as well as the Italian Super tourism Championship. Giovanni di Pillo also served as a voice actor for the Italian version of the Superbike 2000 video game by EA Sports.

He directed the thematic channel Nuvolari for the part relating to two wheels and this was between 2001 and 2012. He was in charge of the commentary of the GP World Championship, the SBK World Championship as well as the American Supercross.

Giovanni di Pillo was asked to record a tape to be played for motorcyclist Falappa who had fallen into a coma after a serious accident. The tape was meant to encourage Falappa to fight and wake up. Giovanni di Pillo’s voice was what Falappa heard for the first time after 38 days in a coma.

Giovanni di Pillo was also a special correspondent at the Italian motor shows and so far as Nuvolari was concerned, he created several indepth series from the United States of America.

He often spoke at important international events such as Italian Motorcross GPs, as well as live commentating of the Italian stage of the MotoGP at Mugello and he came up with the greeting ‘Good Morning Mugello’ which became very famous. He served as a special correspondent for the Finelco Group since 2002.

This was initially for Radio 105 and then for Virgin Radio which gave him the chance to collaborate with DJ Ringo on the Revolver Radio show. Beginning from 2013, he had been live commentating on the world SBK and Supersport Championships for Eurosport satellite network.

Giovanni di Pillo Cause of Death

Giovanni di Pillo was taken ill and admitted to a hospital in Verona on January 20, 2019. He was suffering from a thoracic aneurysm. Unfortunately, he died on October 13, 2022, at the Careggi Hospital in Florence due to a cardiovascular disease. Giovanni di Pillo was 67 years old at the time of his death.

Reference:

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Di_Pillo


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