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Conegliano, basketball coach and teacher struck down at 38

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Gianluca Merenda, minibasket coach and teacher

Gianluca Merenda had taught at the elementary school of Orsago and had been a mini-basketball instructor in the Falcons of Vittorio Veneto. A fulminant illness took him away

CONEGLIANO. Mourning in the world of school and basketball. Gianluca Merenda, 38, an unforgotten teacher at the elementary school of Orsago and coach of the Vittorio Veneto youth basketball team, passed away due to a fulminant illness.

“A teacher of great humanity,” remember his parents and former colleagues, troubled by his untimely death. Originally from Messina, he moved to the Marca in the twenties to pursue his dream as a teacher. Most of his career he spent at the primary school in Orsago, where he taught for about a decade. His family grew up between Marca and Friuli: married to Susi, he had two children, Emanuele and Gabriele, they lived in Stevenà di Caneva. He had also been part of the Conegliano Alpine Fanfare. A couple of years he returned to Sicily to teach, in an elementary school in the Municipality of Naso (Messina).

But in the Coneglianese and Vittoriese area, where he lived most of his life, everyone remembers that teacher and there were many messages of condolence. Maestro Gianluca knew he went beyond teaching, he understood the feelings of children, especially the most fragile, and he knew how to make them feel at ease and grow. “Hear condolences to the family of dear teacher Gianluca, you left a wonderful memory in the children of the school and the basketball team”, is the message of one of the Orsagesi mothers.

«Dear Gianluca you will always be in our hearts. Classes 5 of the primary school in Orsago “. Via social media there were many expressions of condolence that reached the family. «A wonderful person and a professionally trained, competent and capable colleague. Gianluca was a wonderful colleague and a person of great heart », the memory of Nicoletta and Emanuela, colleagues from the primary school in Orsago.

He had been coach in the minibasket of the Falcons Vittorio Veneto. “The president Massimo Cettolin, the vice president, the board of directors, athletes, players and collaborators send a strong hug to the family of our dear Gianluca – it was the condolences of the basketball players -. His kindness and nobility of soul will always remain in us ». The Alpine Fanfare of Conegliano is also in mourning: “A tenor sax, a dear friend who is a member of our fanfare, rest in peace”. Within a few months, Gianluca Merenda was struck down by an illness. The funeral took place on Wednesday afternoon in the church of San Michele Arcangelo, in Librizzi, his homeland in the Messina hinterland. In mourning the town, the mayor of Librizzi, Renato De Blasi, expressed the grief of the community in a video message. “A drama that leaves us stunned and speechless, we knew that Gianluca was ill, but we also knew that he was fighting his battle with strength and we all hoped that he could make it, instead he went away – said the mayor -. Gianluca is a young man, a splendid, good person. We are close to the family, I am thinking of the children, the wife, the parents, the brother ».

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