Daniela Scalia

Since January 2020 she is columnist and deputy editor of Sportdipiù. Since April 2020 she holds a column about sports in Movie and Tv Series at Globetodays.

June 2019, national Swiss TV and several media reported that the "Sport Crime" duo Daniela Scalia and Luca Tramontin have been working since September 2018 coaching FC Lugano Settore Giovanile with techniques and drills partly custom created and partly from rugby.

On April 4, 2016, at Cannes Mip Festival, Scalia and Tramontin revealed that the TV movie "The Legacy Run", introducing Sport Crime themes, atmosphere and characters, had been produced and edited. Curiously, no shooting had been done in Italy but only in Switzerland and Croatia with extensive media coverage on national TVs, radio, magazines and newspapers.

December 4, 2016, "The Legacy Run" had its world premier at Swiss national tv reaching share numbers close to the historic "Sunday Sport Show /Domenica Sportiva". Scalia's brainy and charming character had several accolades as the whole movie had an extremely positive reception.

In 2015 she joined ASD Rugby Casale making her debut in the italian Serie A on April 12 in Tourin.

She represented Italy in the Gaelic Football national team debut against France in Toulouse, November 2014 She's also in the Venetian Lionesses Ladies Team roster.

In January 2013 she started anchoring the Ice Hockey magazine ESP Hockey on Espansione TV with her long term tv partner Luca Tramontin.

During 2013, Tramontin and Scalia invented and registered a new TV series called SPORT CRIME. They kept it hidden until the trailer's shooting took them to Polcenigo (PN), Rovigo (with Rugby Rovigo Delta), Rijeka (with Primorje) and London (at the Marylebone Cricket Club Academy of Lord's Cricket Ground).

She started playing cricket with Milan Kingsgrove in 2012. In 2015 she moved to the Olimpia Casteller Cricket Club and she won the Coppa Italia and finished the season as a runner up. In August 2015 she represented Italy in the Ireland and Jersey tour where the team conquer the european tournament.

In 2011 she wrote and hosted with Luca Tramontin a show called the Oval Bin. Oval Bin was co-anchored by Gianluca Veneziano.

During Summer 2011, ahead of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, she anchored a surreal but historically accurate News Program called "Story Kiwi TG". She time-machined "reporters" Luca Tramontin and Gianluca Veneziano through the centuries of colonization and development of rugby in New Zealand "witnessing" facts like the 1st rugby match in Nelson or Captain Cook landing. In an interview to "Sportincondotta" Scalia said she regrets that such a successful and appreciated program had been closed as many others of hers, and even the fact it has been removed from the web.

In 2009 she started training and playing Australian football and earned an international cap leading Italy against Ireland at the 2010 Euro Cup in Parabiago. One year later she created and joined Orules but had to stop due to a damaged knee ligament legacy from volley days. She had an important surgery at 36 years of age in order to improve her training possibility and further her sports career.

2008 to 2010 Scalia tied her public image to the daily live night show “Prima Ora” moving then to the massive afternoon news programmes of Sportitalia.

The big turning point came in 2007 when she anchored the International Rugby Board (IRB)'s official magazine program, Total Rugby, with Luca Tramontin. The show had been broadcast in over a hundred countries without any anchors, but Scalia and Tramontin were given the opportunity to change the format to "docu-talk".

Correspondent at the 2007 World Cup, and often traveling for the edgy and colourful “Si Rugby” she presented and wrote with Luca Tramontin, Gianluca Veneziano and rugby record-man Stefano Bettarello, magazine which often involved also Australian Football, Rugby League and other less known codes, she soon became a familiar face to the oval Italian community.

In 2004 she moved to Sportitalia, anchoring the first live news on the national TV and following with the sister company features Eurosport and several “Calcio Serie A e B” programmes.

She started playing volleyball at age of 9 after 3 years of gymnastics. She always played in Verona district minor series until 2004.

Daniela Scalia (born 9 November 1975 in Verona) is an anchorwoman and sport journalist. She also acts in the fictional sports procedural Sport Crime which she co-writes with Luca Tramontin.

She was born and raised in Verona to Silvia Migliorini and Antonino Scalia in 1975. Has three sisters (Sara, Valeria and Orules player Claudia). In 2000, Scalia graduated in foreign languages and literature in Verona and she speaks English fluently and is equally at ease with Italian and French.