FANO A genuine, deep and widespread pain aroused by the passing of Manlio Pierbonithe orthopedist who accompanied half a century of city sport. The death in Pergola, where he was a guest of the rehabilitation unit following a fall he suffered at home. A sudden worsening was fatal after her health had previously been heavily undermined by a stroke and Covid.
Just yesterday Pierboni, who had turned 85 last April, should have connected via video with the “Vernarecci” art gallery in Fossombrone, where the inauguration of the collection of paintings that he, a lover of beautiful things, had donated to the municipality had been organised. of Fossombrone, his birthplace.
Since 1972 a life in the grenade
However, it was in Fano that Pierboni marked an era, going well beyond the dimension of a professional working for Alma, of which he had been appointed team doctor for the first time in 1972. His passionate nature was immediately combined with his marked competence, electing him as a point of reference for Granata football in a couple of decades that produced memorable pages. In the same way that his clinical eye allowed him to draw up precise diagnoses, without being able to make use, at the time, of sophisticated instrumental tests, his combative and even polemical spirit led him to clash with the unfortunate referee on duty every time decisions and he didn’t like attitudes. An intolerance in the face of iniquities, which, spread across an exuberant humanity, also characterized his career, developed first at the hospital in Fano and then in that of Senigallia, and marked not only by the professional recognitions also gained in the context of other disciplines, such as gymnastics, and from the appreciation of patients, but also from proud rebellions against a system that he considered hostage to politics.
He lived near the stadium
His pension had not prevented him from persisting with his private activity, often carried out selflessly and even in his home in via Lelli, emblematically a stone’s throw from the stadium. It went like this also in recent years, when first he followed the events of Virtus and then again those of Alma, until the last slam of the door in the presence of a club management whose methods he did not agree with in the slightest. In recent months it was the newborn Fano football that attempted to involve him again but then events took a turn for the worse.
