Brera wrote for La Gazzetta dello Sport, Il Guerin Sportivo, Il Giorno, Il Giornale, La Repubblica and several other publications. When he was discharged in 1945, he started working for La Gazzetta dello Sport (Italy’s first sports daily), eventually becoming editor-in-chief in 1949, soccer clothes the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of a national newspaper in Italy. Brera is viewed one of the most influential Italian sports journalists of the 20th century. Brera died halfway between Codogno and Casalpusterlengo, in 1992, from injuries suffered in a car accident: a car on the other side of the road crashed into his car, soccer jerseys causing his death and of two other passengers.
