A crowd and great emotion this afternoon in Sinnai for the funeral of Matteo Lai , the 18-year-old who died last Friday in hospital, at Brotzu, after being injured in a road accident in the hamlet of Tasonis while returning home, in Sinnai, on his scooter.

The church of Santa Barbara was too small for the rite , with the crowd also listening to the mass from the square.

The words of the parish priest, Father Gabriele Biccai, were moving. He had a giant photograph of Matteo the rugby player made and placed it near the Virgin of the Assumption.

The parish priest himself addressed the boy's parents with words of comfort, remembering Matteo, a young man with many friends, and not only through football and rugby, which he practiced first for La Pineta and then for Capoterra rugby.

After the ceremony, the body was accompanied to the new cemetery by hundreds of people .

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