Luca Tramontin

Luca Tramontin (born 22 February 1966) is an Italian former rugby union footballer, and television sports personality.

He is the author and protagonist of the TV Series Sport Crime that he created with Daniela Scalia.

He has played for Italy, Switzerland, and Hungary.

He has also played Australian rules football, Ice hockey and Gaelic football He has appeared on Eurosport's programs, including Total Rugby.

Season 2 has been launched at the 80th Venice Film Festival.

Tramontin joined 1st division club Rugby Casale in 1985.

He played for seven seasons as a second rower.

He had a short stint with Occhiali Vogue Belluno, which had reached Serie A, but he returned to Casale after some disciplinary issues.

In the 1989 off season, he traveled to play in the New England Rugby Union Cup in Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, where he got in touch also with Cricket, Rugby League and Aussie Rules.

Then coach Colin Price advised Luca to train twice a week with the local rugby league team in order to improve his deficitary ball handling.

In reflecting on his Australian visit, Tramontin said, "those awkward hours in the park opened up my mind forever" as he would later leave the Rugby Union to play the games he learned down under.

In the 1990 off season, after getting the 1st degree, he biked through Thailand and Malaysia for two and a half months, and returned late and underweight to the Casale summer camp.

As a result, he had a low rate season where he was relegated to the bench.

From 1992-2006, he played on various clubs in Piacenza, Viadana, Brescia, New York City, and three different clubs in Milan.

Tramontin was on television mostly as a guest, but in 1996, he began studying acting and television writing at the Antenna Cinema school.

He worked a year at Canale 5, then at Telepiù-Sky as a writer and journalist for five years.

Although still active in rugby, his television production work had yet to be related to his sport activities.

In 2004, Tramontin moved to the newly formed network SportItalia, which partnered with Eurosport.

There, he provided commentary on rugby matches, with Pierpaolo Pedroni in the first year, and afterwards with Gianluca Veneziano.

He anchored the International Rugby Board (IRB)'s official magazine program, Total Rugby, with Daniela Scalia.

The show had been broadcast in over a hundred countries without any anchors, but Tramontin and Scalia changed the format making it into a "docu-talk".

Between 2004 and 2012, Tramontin averaged five hours of sports commentary a week for Eurosport.

The topics featured include: Rugby League State of Origin, National Rugby League, Australian Football League, Cricket Champions League, Field Hockey Euro League, weightlifting, StrongMan, Gaelic Sports and the Spengler Cup ice hockey tournament, the last of which he considers one of the best sports events ever.

In 2006, Tramontin became a regular guest on the Swiss National TV RSI lunch-time talk show Mezzogiorno in punto, which was anchored by Fabrizio Casati.

In 2007, the show changed its name to Buon Pomeriggio and changed anchors to Sandy Altermatt.

Tramontin was the "multifaceted talker of sports, music and life in general."

He participated in Sport Non Stop, a six-hour Sunday sports show led by Stefano Ferrando.

He commentated on the finals for the 2007 and 2011 Rugby Union World Cup for Swiss National TV.

Since 2010 he collaborates with Australian radio broadcaster SBS

In 2011, Tramontin created and hosted a show called the Oval Bin.

It was originally intended to be a television program, but turned into a shortened web show at the last moment for reasons not revealed.

Oval Bin was co-anchored by Daniela Scalia and Gianluca Veneziano.

In February 2013, Tramontin and Scalia hosted ESP Hockey, a weekly ice hockey magazine show, at Espansione TV The show has focused on the Suisse NLA ice hockey championship, but he has occasionally thrown in references to rugby, Australian football, water polo and other team sports.

"The Legacy Run" is the tv movie introducing some of Sport Crime themes that had its world premier at Swiss national tv on the 4 December 2016, reaching share numbers close to the historic Sunday sport show "Sport Non Stop".

In 2017 he was again on telly with FUNalysis: as the name says, Scalia and Tramontin created, produced and anchored on Sportitalia a TV-Show about the unbelievable aspects of the most remote sports, enforcing the fun-factor.

Addressed also to a no-sport audience, the high rate program covered the humoristic and social aspect of "The Ashes" (cricket clash between Australia and England), the relevance of Gaelic Football in identity, music and folklore, the misconceptions about the weight lifting training and more.

Sport Crime is a TV series about sports investigations, it tells the stories of the Seams Agency, based in Lugano and ready to intervene when an alleged crime or infraction endangers a team, a sport venue or an athlete.

Any episode is based on a different sport and features real sports actions in a classic investigation plot with an international cast.

Tramontin acts as the main character Luca "Dabs" Kriv.

Season 1 is distributed on Prime Video US, Prime Video UK and on Chili Italy.