Giusy Meloni spent the World Cup period posting from a lakeside luxury hotel rather than traveling to America to cover the tournament, offering viewers a string of vacation images and short-form coverage from the hotel grounds instead of on-site reporting.
Meloni is a DAZN television anchor and actress who remains visible around football: she was pictured playing with a ball at the Serie A match between AS Roma and US Lecce at Stadio Olimpico in Rome on March 22, 2026, but at the time of the World Cup she was not in America and was not covering the event in person.
The timing matters because the tournament has drawn networks and personalities to the United States; last spring, Joe placed calls to TV networks seeking talent for U.S. sports coverage, yet the roster that landed in America included other names — for example, Eleonara Incardona received a call to cover the World Cup. With Italy not in action, Meloni did not make the trip and opted to produce vacation-focused content from the lakeside venue.
That choice has become part of the story. Meloni’s lakeside posts have been framed as a kind of entertainment substitute for live World Cup dispatches: followers get a polished, lifestyle-flavored feed anchored by a familiar football face rather than match-day reporting from U.S. venues. The contrast is striking because she is both a presenter and an actress accustomed to on-camera work at matches and studio shows, yet her World Cup presence this year is a social-media set of vacation snapshots and short clips rather than field reporting.
The practical consequence is straightforward: Meloni did not cover the World Cup in America and others were called for that on-the-ground work while she stayed at the lakeside hotel. Whether she will swap the hotel view for a return to international tournament coverage is not signaled by new travel or assignment notices; for now, her public role during the tournament window is the vacation coverage she chose to post.
