Stefano Bizzotto, is an Italian sports journalist and commentator. He has covered 8 World Cups and 7 European Football Championships, 7 Summer and 7 Winter Olympics, and co-wrote two previous books about soccer, What a dive, life! (2012), and Around the World in a Cup (2018). He lives in Italy.

Will Schutt is an award-winning poet and translator. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and the Raiziss/de Palchi Award from the Academy of American Poets. He currently lives with his wife in Rome, Italy.