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”Francis’s rigid leg
”I remember the balls from rags, “pelota de trapo. “ The leather at that time was still expensive, and the rubber was nowhere to buy. But this was enough for us to have fun.
The site was located near our house. But I wasn’t there among the best. To be honest, I was one of those who are called in Argentina “PATA Dura ” (“tough leg”), and so I was put on the gate. “
Chorge Mario Bergolio laughed, remembering the old.
Until his death, the Pontiff was proud that he did not miss a single home match of the 1946 season, when his San Lorens became Argentina champion. They and their father, even on the field, ran to rejoice with the team.
The future Francis could not choose a better club for pain, as San Lorenso was founded by the priest Loreno Massa, and his players are called “saints”.
He also imprinted his outlook, because San Lorenso from Bohedo in Buenos Aires, where one working class lives. Here, he “burst”, made it up with the poor.
The promotion in the church hierarchy has not changed anything. In the 1990s, in the rank of Archbishop Francis, he took the habit of sanctifying San Lorensa’s locker room before the matches, and once got under the hot hand of Alfio Basile’s coach:
“Who is this priest? Let it come from here immediately!”
Well, this is just an episode.
So the club was proud of his fan and after a sensational victory in Kop Libertadores-2014 immediately drove the trophy to the Vatican.
And what he has? Club membership ticket! Emotional Argentines have already linked his number “88235” with divine providence-they say, the Pope lived for 88 years, and died at 2:35 in Buenos Aires.
Well, and San Lorenso promises to build a new stadium and name it “Horge Mario Bergolio”.
It is poorly believed. Argentina has long been in the economic crisis.
Did not see Messi matches Everything through the tragedy. It so happened that football “killed” his father.
In 1990, he was at the San Lorens Stadium and suffered a heart attack during the celebration. Doctors arrived too late.
Bergolio was difficult for it and gradually distanced himself from the game, looked only on TV, and then stopped turning on:
“I got up and went. As if God told me that it wasn’t for me.”
Already as the Pope he confessed that he had broken the oath twice-after aircraft in Buenos Aires in 1999 and after terrorist attacks in New York in 2001. But for the sake of football – never.
“Sometimes I was asked if I look like Messi or Maskerano? But I didn’t know because I didn’t see their matches.”
He just read about them. There was a peculiar ritual: the Swarf Swiss Guards from the guard left a fresh newspaper on the table with the results of the Argentina Championship matches, which the pontiff “unnoticed” took himself.
The funny anecdote was told by Professor of theology of the University of Design University Anna Rowlanda – she asked the Pope at the first meeting about her favorite club:
“I said that she was born in Manchester and from birth is a devoted fan.
So even a personal disaster did not turn Bergolio from the game outside.
He gladly ruled the Mass at the stadiums not in the days of matches, and in Marseille earned such a correa from ultras.
He was drawn to the players, and he received everyone. Not only Messi or Maradona, but also modest teams, such as a clearing or spice. Never so many players were seen in the Vatican.
Without Francis, football in the Vatican will go out? But no, of course.
But most likely, the profits will stop arriving on a monthly basis, and the game will return to the amateur bed.
The chronicle states that for the first time within the Vatican protofutball match played in 1521 in the presence of Pope Leo Kh.
The events of 1947, which do not like to remember, were even further. The essence of the teams was four, and in the finals the papal cleaners came together with the staff of the San Pietro factory, and the match did not win-a mass fight began, which included viewers from the clergy. When the Pope learned, he put a strict ban on football.
It was only removed in 1972-and since then they have been playing regularly in the Vatican.
The permanent population of the country, located within Rome, is only 800-900 people, so it is not for any breeding.
In recent years, the Vatican football is dominated by SS Hermes Musei Vaticani – a team of papal museum restorers. There are also teams of Swiss Guards, San Pietro factory, papal library, television, Vatican mail, L’Osservatore Romano newspaper.
In addition to the championship, since 1985, they also play a Cup, which is named Cardinal Sergio Valchi, who took care of football from 1972 until his death in 2012.
Workouts are held in non -working hours, game days – Monday and Tuesday. The Vatican stadium – 400 meters from St. Peter’s Cathedral.
The main star of all time is a kind of Bruno Mariotti, who played for the Vatican mail and broke everyone in the experience gained in the Roma youth.
Of course, the death of Francis will not affect this football – it was and will remain, this is already part of the Vatican life.
”Papal Mundial ” – what is it? And this is a Cleericus Cup-a competition that was first organized in 2007 by Cardinal Tarchizio Bertone.
In the Roman Catholic Church, there are hundreds of seminary around the world, and they compete with each other.
“Mundial” – because the whole world is actually represented. The last time came 355 seminarians from 56 countries! Latin America is most traditionally brought, but Africans most often benefit.
The Clericus Cup is played on artificial cover.
Interesting nuance: there are no yellow and red cards, but there are blue. The player who received such a card is left for 5 minutes and sits on a “bench”.
Bertone was the main career of the tournament, as well as a passionate fan of Juventus. In his previous position, Archbishop Genoa somehow even commented on the radio match.
“If we just gathered our students from Brazilian colleges, they would already have a competitive football team,” Tarchizio once said.
However, no one supported him.
Bergolio, being a pope, performed strictly for amateur sports in the Vatican, and even the professionals attracted exactly to him. Thus, in 2014, 2016 and 2022, Pope collected inter-religious matches for peace, where he was raising money for Scholas Occurrentes-a network of schools for the needy.
Havier Danetti organized everyone, and there were Maradona, Baggio, Ronaldinho, Stoychkov, Buffon, Futra and many more … Christians. The rest did not come.
In 2014, she also played Sheva, who asked the Pope to pray for Ukraine where the war began.
Bergolio naturally drawn to Maradona, which he asked at all – did he or Pele?
“Messi,” Diego replied.
Can they enter UEFA and FIFA? No chance.
OJSC Ikan is one of nine sovereign countries that are not members of FIFA, and so it will remain.
In general, he has his own national teams – male and female, but it is a pure exhibition story.
Their debut was in 1994 against the San Marino national team-and it ended with a draw 0-0.
The following were more than a dozen matches with amateurs, the same unofficial team of Monaco, charitable foundations and government agencies. Won four times, and Main Victoria – over China U23 in 2008 (4: 3). For the Celestial, it was a universal shame.
The most famous figure in this national team is the legendary trainer Giovanni Trapatton, who headed it in 2010 in a match with Italy’s financial police.
Problems? Primarily through various activists.
So, in 2019, the Vatican women’s team had to play with the Austrian Mariakilf, but they started protesting right before the game-they say why this Catholic Church condemns gays and abortions? I had to roll everything.
“We are here for the sake of sports, not political or other messages,” said the head of the Pontifical Football Association Danilo Dzenro.
For the same reasons he gave up Conifa – Associations of unrecognized territories where they played, forgive Lord, Abkhazia and Hungarians of Transcarpathia.
The smart man was a dent, and in the years of the Bergolio papacy was also influential.
As it happens next – this conqulove will decide.
The popes are first and foremost people. Karol Wojtyla loved the theater, and Aloise Ratzinger – Mozart. Football was lucky with Bergolio; He will go down in history – as the most football pope for all times.
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”Francis’s rigid leg
”I remember the balls from rags, “pelota de trapo. “ The leather at that time was still expensive, and the rubber was nowhere to buy. But this was enough for us to have fun.
The site was located near our house. But I wasn’t there among the best. To be honest, I was one of those who are called in Argentina “PATA Dura ” (“tough leg”), and so I was put on the gate. “
Chorge Mario Bergolio laughed, remembering the old.
Until his death, the Pontiff was proud that he did not miss a single home match of the 1946 season, when his San Lorens became Argentina champion. They and their father, even on the field, ran to rejoice with the team.
The future Francis could not choose a better club for pain, as San Lorenso was founded by the priest Loreno Massa, and his players are called “saints”.
He also imprinted his outlook, because San Lorenso from Bohedo in Buenos Aires, where one working class lives. Here, he “burst”, made it up with the poor.
The promotion in the church hierarchy has not changed anything. In the 1990s, in the rank of Archbishop Francis, he took the habit of sanctifying San Lorensa’s locker room before the matches, and once got under the hot hand of Alfio Basile’s coach:
“Who is this priest? Let it come from here immediately!”
Well, this is just an episode.
So the club was proud of his fan and after a sensational victory in Kop Libertadores-2014 immediately drove the trophy to the Vatican.
And what he has? Club membership ticket! Emotional Argentines have already linked his number “88235” with divine providence-they say, the Pope lived for 88 years, and died at 2:35 in Buenos Aires.
Well, and San Lorenso promises to build a new stadium and name it “Horge Mario Bergolio”.
It is poorly believed. Argentina has long been in the economic crisis.
Did not see Messi matches Everything through the tragedy. It so happened that football “killed” his father.
In 1990, he was at the San Lorens Stadium and suffered a heart attack during the celebration. Doctors arrived too late.
Bergolio was difficult for it and gradually distanced himself from the game, looked only on TV, and then stopped turning on:
“I got up and went. As if God told me that it wasn’t for me.”
Already as the Pope he confessed that he had broken the oath twice-after aircraft in Buenos Aires in 1999 and after terrorist attacks in New York in 2001. But for the sake of football – never.
“Sometimes I was asked if I look like Messi or Maskerano? But I didn’t know because I didn’t see their matches.”
He just read about them. There was a peculiar ritual: the Swarf Swiss Guards from the guard left a fresh newspaper on the table with the results of the Argentina Championship matches, which the pontiff “unnoticed” took himself.
The funny anecdote was told by Professor of theology of the University of Design University Anna Rowlanda – she asked the Pope at the first meeting about her favorite club:
“I said that she was born in Manchester and from birth is a devoted fan.
So even a personal disaster did not turn Bergolio from the game outside.
He gladly ruled the Mass at the stadiums not in the days of matches, and in Marseille earned such a correa from ultras.
He was drawn to the players, and he received everyone. Not only Messi or Maradona, but also modest teams, such as a clearing or spice. Never so many players were seen in the Vatican.
Without Francis, football in the Vatican will go out? But no, of course.
But most likely, the profits will stop arriving on a monthly basis, and the game will return to the amateur bed.
The chronicle states that for the first time within the Vatican protofutball match played in 1521 in the presence of Pope Leo Kh.
The events of 1947, which do not like to remember, were even further. The essence of the teams was four, and in the finals the papal cleaners came together with the staff of the San Pietro factory, and the match did not win-a mass fight began, which included viewers from the clergy. When the Pope learned, he put a strict ban on football.
It was only removed in 1972-and since then they have been playing regularly in the Vatican.
The permanent population of the country, located within Rome, is only 800-900 people, so it is not for any breeding.
In recent years, the Vatican football is dominated by SS Hermes Musei Vaticani – a team of papal museum restorers. There are also teams of Swiss Guards, San Pietro factory, papal library, television, Vatican mail, L’Osservatore Romano newspaper.
In addition to the championship, since 1985, they also play a Cup, which is named Cardinal Sergio Valchi, who took care of football from 1972 until his death in 2012.
Workouts are held in non -working hours, game days – Monday and Tuesday. The Vatican stadium – 400 meters from St. Peter’s Cathedral.
The main star of all time is a kind of Bruno Mariotti, who played for the Vatican mail and broke everyone in the experience gained in the Roma youth.
Of course, the death of Francis will not affect this football – it was and will remain, this is already part of the Vatican life.
”Papal Mundial ” – what is it? And this is a Cleericus Cup-a competition that was first organized in 2007 by Cardinal Tarchizio Bertone.
At the Roman Catholic Church of Sotn And the seminary around the world, so they compete with each other.
“Mundial” – because the whole world is actually represented. The last time came 355 seminarians from 56 countries! Latin America is most traditionally brought, but Africans most often benefit.
The Clericus Cup is played on artificial cover.
Interesting nuance: there are no yellow and red cards, but there are blue. The player who received such a card is left for 5 minutes and sits on a “bench”.
Bertone was the main career of the tournament, as well as a passionate fan of Juventus. In his previous position, Archbishop Genoa somehow even commented on the radio match.
“If we just gathered our students from Brazilian colleges, they would already have a competitive football team,” Tarchizio once said.
However, no one supported him.
Bergolio, being a pope, performed strictly for amateur sports in the Vatican, and even the professionals attracted exactly to him. Thus, in 2014, 2016 and 2022, Pope collected inter-religious matches for peace, where he was raising money for Scholas Occurrentes-a network of schools for the needy.
Havier Danetti organized everyone, and there were Maradona, Baggio, Ronaldinho, Stoychkov, Buffon, Futra and many more … Christians. The rest did not come.
In 2014, she also played Sheva, who asked the Pope to pray for Ukraine where the war began.
Bergolio naturally drawn to Maradona, which he asked at all – did he or Pele?
“Messi,” Diego replied.
Can they enter UEFA and FIFA? No chance.
Currently, the Vatican is one of nine sovereign countries that are not members of FIFA, and it will remain.
In general, he has his own national teams – male and female, but it is a pure exhibition story.
Their debut was in 1994 against the San Marino national team-and it ended with a draw 0-0.
The following were more than a dozen matches with amateurs, the same unofficial team of Monaco, charitable foundations and government agencies. Won four times, and Main Victoria – over China U23 in 2008 (4: 3). For the Celestial, it was a universal shame.
The most famous figure in this national team is the legendary trainer Giovanni Trapatton, who headed it in 2010 in a match with Italy’s financial police.
Problems? Primarily through various activists.
So, in 2019, the Vatican women’s team had to play with the Austrian Mariakilf, but they started protesting right before the game-they say why this Catholic Church condemns gays and abortions? I had to roll everything.
“We are here for the sake of sports, not political or other messages,” said the head of the Pontifical Football Association Danilo Dzenro.
For the same reasons he gave up Conifa – Associations of unrecognized territories where they played, forgive Lord, Abkhazia and Hungarians of Transcarpathia.
The smart man was a dent, and in the years of the Bergolio papacy was also influential.
As it happens next – this conqulove will decide.
The popes are first and foremost people. Karol Wojtyla loved the theater, and Aloise Ratzinger – Mozart. Football was lucky with Bergolio; He will go down in history – as the most football pope for all times.