The Mourning Messina Rugby. Pino Giorgio, 85 years old, has passed away in the past few hours Among the prominent figures of the Peloritano movement and the first Messina rugby player to wear the national team shirt wearing it 2 times to the win of the years 1968/1969. A giant on the field and in sport, a point of reference for generations of athletes and sportsmen. To remind him also the Messina Rugby through the words of the vice -president Pietro Briguglio, who was also president of the Messina clan: “Dear Pino, you were the biggest and highest of all of us fifteen -year -olds. Intracted, I rage, you led all … I challenged you to come and play rugby at the Arsenale. You became one of the strongest forward in Italy, blue in the 1968/’69. Of all those who loved you … even if you never wanted to spend the ball “.
Among the notes of condolence that of Petrarca Rugby. “Third black and white line in the 1968/69 season, the first year as a coach of Memo Geremia, with 14 appearances, also conquered the blue shirt. In 69/70 he returned to Messina as a coach player, giving a new size to the Messina rugby thanks to the experience acquired in Padua”.