A crowd moved by the funeral of Tullio Lanesethe emeritus referee from Messina, who passed away last Saturday at 78 years old. Hundreds of close people around the family members of the former international whistle who gave so much luster to the city of Messina with its sports companies. The coffin is surrounded by some young uniform referees.
Tullio Lanese was gone, after a disease, on tiptoe, in perfect style with the character admired On the pitch for over twenty years and behind the desk. He died in his Messina who for years has inflated his chest of pride for his son who became a symbol of international sport, which started in the 1960s by dusty fields with a passion for football and arbitration and arrived at the maximum peaks to direct to the Seoul Olympics (summer ’88), at the ’90s and Euro ’92 World Cup.
The words in the homily of Father Gio Tavilla
“He formed generations of referees. It was one of us, he brought our Messina to another. A fruit that fell to the ground, almost consuming himself in the media butcher who often falls to great men. He experienced the experience of the disease, where the generosity he had given returned the love that the family had received. That fruit produced lordship, composure of the gestures, but also authority”.
At the funeral present, among others, Alberto Santoro, Rosario Abbisso, Roland Herberg, the president Aia Antonio Zappi and many Sicilian fisches. The words of the son is moving Gianmarcoof the daughter -in -law Federica and the nephew Geneva.
Zappi: “Tullio model for young people”
“Tullio was a symbol of elegance and elegance: he did it – said Zappi – In every corner and in every place and in all the roles he has exercised. The teaching is the cornerstone of my mandate and the entire system that must be based on meritocracy. Speaking I would like to transmit a core of what Tullio did, a model for young people. of values he has transmitted.
Zappi also recalled that he had promoted him in a phase in which there was a geographical rivalry and Lanese replied that the skill did not be plaque.