Nathalie Iannetta is one of the football experts who surround Denis Brogniart, in The Euro Mag. After the game between the Portuguese and the Blues, scheduled for the first part of the evening on TF1 , she will come back to the performance of Didier Deschamps’ men.
His first steps at Canal +
On its futuristic-looking set, the host of Koh-Lanta scrutinizes the meeting which has just been held within the framework of the European football championship. Around him, two former professional footballers Ludovic Giuly and Youri Djorkaeff repeat the match in the company of sports journalist Nathalie Iannetta.
Even if this show is mainly punctuated by male faces, it takes more to shake up this sports enthusiast, who began her career at a time when the question of gender parity did not arise. “I had been working on the editorial staff of Canal + for two years when I joined the sports department in August 1997. Alain De Greef, the director of programs, said that we were not immune to a success “, remembers Nathalie Iannetta, who presented on her arrival The Football Journal with Vincent Radureau, every Sunday evening.
The figurehead of the encrypted channel
After this first conclusive experience, the executives of the encrypted channel place absolute trust in their new darling. At the start of the following school year, she presents with the late Thierry Gilardi the evenings of the UEFA Cup. Then she covers the Mondial 98. Later, she will take control of the magazine Football day, from Sunday Team. She even ventured into the world of the oval ball, thanks to the program Jour de rugby. “They gave me almost everything. I was incredibly lucky. For years I have wondered why the leaders gave me so many gifts! “, admits the reporter.
Gender equality pegged to the body
Nathalie Iannetta has become a model for the young generation of female journalists. At the time when men now agree to give up a piece of the pie, some football fans would like to follow in the footsteps of the journalist. “Since I took this chance, I thought it could present itself to everyone. However, I realized that this was not the case. There is still a lot of work to be done on gender equality ”.
His gratitude to France
Commitment being part of her DNA, in 2014, François Hollande recruited her at the Élysée Palace as an advisor, in order to organize the Euro in France and Paris’ candidacy for the 2024 Olympic Games. “It is perhaps a way of thanking this country which welcomed my grandparents and my mother, to give back to it what it allowed me to become through the republican school”, confesses the journalist, whose family has its roots in Italy.
Where will this journey take her? Nathalie Iannetta is not following any career plan. On the other hand, she would still like to unite her passion for sport with her principles, in particular through a future documentary series on women in football.
“Le Mag de l’Euro”, at 10:55 pm on “TF1”
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