Paul Grech

Paul Grech has been writing about football on various online outlets for the past twenty years. He focuses largely on football coaching and the Italian game. Over the past few years he has published two book series; Blueprint According To... which is a collection of interviews with football coaches and Il Re Calcio that brings together a collection of stories from the history of Italian football.

He has also written The Forgotten Genius of Italian Football which tells the story of Carlo Carcano, the manager who built the first great Juventus side but whose reputation was sullied by an unfounded rumour. The latter was translated into Italian under the title of Il Genio Dimenticato del Calcio Italiano.

His latest book is Echoes of an Italian Summer, telling the fascinating stories that underpin the magical Italia90 World Cup, many told for the first time