by From a memorial jersey to a stadium in his name, Argentinian football plans a number of homage to his late “captain” Poper Francis, which is suitable as an ultimate team player.
Homes to the Argentine Pope, a lifelong lover of the beautiful game, who died on Monday at the age of 88, were cultivated with football metaphors in his homeland.
“Francisco. What a player,” remarked the Argentine Football Association and described the first Pope from Latin America and the southern hemisphere as a generation talent who “never thrown the ball” and who showed the world “the meaning of an Argentine captain when courage is needed”.
The Afa postponed all its devices for grief for the Pope on Monday. One minute is observed in all games for the rest of the week.
The San Lorenzo Club in Buenos Aires, of which Jorge Bergoglio was a lifelong fan, announced that this week will remain open until 9 p.m. until 9 p.m. until 9 p.m. so that the fans would say goodbye to a temporary altar that is decorated with its portrait.
The club is also planning a commemorative fair on Wednesday and the players will end on Saturday in a special Franziskus memorial jersey when they meet Rosario Central at home.
A picture of the Pope’s San Lorenzo member card from 2008 became viral on social media, and many noticed the strange coincidence of his death in Argentina, 2:35, at the age of 88 and its membership number of the club: 88235.
– ‘Pope Francis’ Stadium –
Argentine football Great Lionel Messi led his country’s homage to the Pope on Monday and thanked him for “making the world a better place”.
San Lorenzo gave an emotional statement and a video about the famous “crow”, as fans of the club founded by a priest are known, which was “always one of us”.
The stages of the BUENOS AIRES cathedral, where Francis was an archbishop from 1998 to 2013, and that of a church in his homeland to Flores, where a commemorative fair took place on Monday, covered with football jerseys, scarves and stems.
The President of San Lorenzo, Marcelo Moretti, confirmed on Tuesday that the planned 55,000-seater stadium of the club was named after the deceased leader of the 1.4 billion Catholic in the world.
Moretti said he visited the Pope in the Vatican in 2024 to ask him to give the event location its name.
“He accepted and was very moved,” said Moretti.
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