Rome – Starting from the meeting with Diego Maradona, his favorite Buenos Aires Club, San Lorenzo, Pope Francis were an interested football fan. And sports preacher in general.
Francis died at 9am on Monday and paid homage to the Soccer and the sports world.
All sports events scheduled on Monday in Italy were suspended for mourning, including four top-flight Soccer matches. The Italian Olympic Committee has added, one minute silence can be noticed before all sports events after the week.
“Italian Soccer has joined the mourning of millions of people after the death of Pope Francis. He was a great example of Christian care and dignity in the face of misery, and he was always attentive to the sports world and especially Soccer, which he was a fan,” said Gabina, the president of Soccer, Socker of Italian Soccer. “He will always be in the heart of Soccer’s faithful and lovers.”
When San Lorenzo tweeted a photo of the club’s crest in the 21st, Soccer’s emotions were introduced to Soccer almost immediately after he was elected Pope. He was even a member of the club’s card, including San Lorenzo ID No 88,235.
San Lorenzo has been given the nickname “The Sants”.
In Italy, there was also suggestion that Francis supported Juventus as his family came from the Pidmont region where the Turin club was based. Francis’ father Mario Bergogli was also a basketball player.
San Lorenzo Francis, one of the oldest teams of the Argentine Football Association, performed well after being elected as the 266th Pope on March 27. The team won a national title in the 21st and then for the first time for the first time in South America’s Copa Libertadors. Club officials traveled twice in the Vatican carrying the trophy to thank Francis for his support.
A planned new San Lorenzo Stadium will be named for Francis.
Francis met his colleague Argentine Maradona with twice the Pope. There was a special audience related to a charity Soccer match in the 21st when Maradona presented Pontif with a Soccer jersey, with the name “Francisco” – Spanish – and Maradona’s number ten for Francis.
“I think we all now understand that he is a (star),” Maradona said after another meeting in 20. “I’m a top fan of Francis.”
When Maradona died in 2021, Francis remembered football great in his prayer.
15 times European Football Champion Real Madrid also mourned Francis in a message on Instagram:
Real Madrid said in a statement, “Real Madrid will want to express condolences to the entire Catholic community for the loss of a historic tihasik and universal personality.” “During his pontift, Pope Francis, characterized by the scale of his inheritance, presented a huge consciousness of solidarity and support for the most disadvantaged and weak people.”
Immediately after he was elected, Francis mentioned the influences of the Athletes, especially the youth, and asked the players to remember that “for better or worse” they were role models. “Dear player, you are very popular. People follow you, and not just in the field, but it stops,” he said. “This is a social responsibility.”
Francis often praised sports as a way of promoting solidarity and inclusion, especially for young people.
During a global conference on faith and sports in 2016, Francis requested the leaders to work better from the playground and said that sport must be protected from manipulation and commercial torture.
“Francis was a special poop, who was able to enlighten only the biggest can in his time,” said Gianluigi Buffon, a former captain of the Italian national football team, on multiple occasions on Instagram, “Francis said. “He showed us the way with great courage and removed our lives. I will take his example to my heart forever.”
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