Doctor and footballer: at 83, he returns to playing goal.

"Age for me isn't chronological age. What matters to me is biological age, and from that point of view, I'm between 58 and 62. On my best days, even 50." This is what Lamberto Boranga, a doctor by profession and a footballer by passion, said when announcing his return to the field at 83: "After all, at this age, you're just a grown-up."

After wearing the shirts of Perugia, Fiorentina, Reggiana, Brescia, Cesena, Varese, Parma and many others, he will now wear that of Trevana in the First Category.

"I don't want to make a fool of myself; it's always been that way: things are done well, or better yet, not done at all. The latest idea, which wasn't mine, came almost by chance and I liked it," he said in an interview with Corriere dell'Umbria.

"I started playing in Trevi, and since I was too good in attack and there was no one to match me, they put me in goal. Recently, again in Trevi, during a conference organized to present my book 'Parare la vecchiaia', they suggested I return to where it all began, and in the end, I said, 'Go on, let's try.'"

The cardiologist and goalkeeper has been training for a month to get back on the pitch: "I'm training with Marco Bonaiuti," he explained, "who coached Samir Handanovic at Inter. I feel good, but I don't know if I'll be able to play the entire match."

But Boranga has always kept fit, and continues to practice various sports: "I'll be competing in the European Masters Athletics Championships in Madeira. I'm always training. I do the long jump, triple jump, pole vault, in every discipline."

“Until I was 70, I was a lion, then I had meniscus problems that affected me a bit but... for me, age is not that of the chronological age”.