Cesare Corda, a well-known Sardinian journalist and writer, has died at the age of 84. In his long career he was among the first sports radio and television commentators: in 1975, from Milan, he reported on a boxing match by Franco Udella, the first radio commentary on free radio. At Videolina, on the other hand, he was among the founders of the news program .

He later moved to Mediaset, where between Canale 5, Italia 1 and Rete 4 Corda was a correspondent from Sardinia and beyond for years, author of a thousand reports. At the end of the 1980s he covered the kidnapping of two Italian technicians (one was from San Vito) as a correspondent in Africa . A story that went around the world, also for two scoops: the interview in Sudan with the rebel leader and, on the fourth mission having entered Ethiopia as an illegal immigrant, the recovery of the two kidnapped people, which he later recounted in the book "Clandestine in Ethiopia - In Search of Kidnapped Italians".

In recent years, together with his commitment to politics as a regional councilor, Corda had published the book "Benvenuto mister Parkinson" , released in 2014, in which he revealed how he faced Parkinson's disease.

(Unioneonline / r. sp.)