For our journalist who passed away at 88 a minute of silence at the Golden Gala. He told many sports, from Atletica (he was among the organizers of Miguel’s race) to rugby to football. Saturday the funeral in Rome
He left without making noise, he who with that vocation filled editorial offices, stadiums and buildings. Giorgio Lo Giudice left us yesterday at 88, after a disease that took it away too quickly. The funeral will be celebrated on Saturday at 9.30 in the church of S. Giuseppe al Cottolengo, in via Bonaccorsi 23 in Rome. He was a journalist deeply in love with sport and Gazzetta, where he began to collaborate in the early 60s and remained until the mid -2000s.
He also loved Rome, his city, and Roma, although for our newspaper he told with competence and passion – two qualities that have always accompanied him – the Lazio Scudetto ’74. In life he dealt with many disciplines, he was an Olympic concentrate: especially athletics, but also football, rugby, boxing, volleyball, swimming and rowing. Many federations yesterday recalled the disappearance and tomorrow evening, before the Golden Gala at the Olympic stadium, a minute of silence will be respected for Giorgio. Last year he was in the press grandstand, because – despite his age – nobody stopped him if there was a story of a history of sport, it was a force of nature, an institution and an example. Lately he had collaborated with the Gazzetta di Parma, but his days were dedicated mainly to Miguel’s race since he was the president of the organizing company, the central Athletic Club. Anyone who met Giorgio has a special memory of him, who in this frenetic and competitive world managed to give time and space to everyone, especially to young people. He called us “a ‘mascalzoni”, with his Roman accent and the ability to joke about everything that made him friend of all. You will miss everyone, to Mascalzone!