On Monday, Marcelo Moretti, President of the Argentine Football Club Ca San Lorenzo de Almagro, enjoyed a moment of global fame. On the occasion of the death of Pope Francis, perhaps not the biggest but best -known supporter of his club, he not only shared in social networks and Argentine media. He wrote an open letter in the Spanish newspaper Marca appeared – and gave a mixing interview in the radio station of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Spain, the Cadena Cope. Among other things, mind you. A request from the SZ remained unanswered, and it is obvious that this is related to the fact that he filled the title pages of the Argentinian newspapers on Tuesday.
A hidden video shows him how he accepts a bundle of banknotes from a woman, a total of $ 25,000. A “donation” that he wants to have passed on to the club treasurer immediately, says Moretti; The woman writes bravers of the woman, who wanted to make sure that her son was accepted into the San Lorenzos junior department. The lady, known by name, is said to be the “right hand” of a media entrepreneur, who is under house arrest, especially because of alleged smuggling money and money laundering in Uruguay. To strive for a decades, known throughout South America of the Chilean folk singer Violeta Parra: “What does the Holy Father who lives in Rome would say?”
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You will never find out that he would probably not be amused. Whether in encyclics or audience of teams such as FC Bayern, Celtic Glasgow or Inter Milan – like no other Pope before him, Franziskus conjured up the cleaning power of sport. “A ball of scraps of fabric can cause miracles,” he said once. In the days that have passed since his death, Urbi et Orbi was reminded of it; Likewise to the special relationship from Francis to Football in general and about Ca San Lorenzo in particular. San Lorenzo is “part of my cultural identity,” said Francis once. “Father ours,” headlined the Argentinian newspaper Oléwhen she cried the dead “football pope”. Wherever Franziskus was mourned in Buenos Aires, scarves from San Lorenzo were always seen.
The association was founded in 1908 by a Salesian, the Argentinians call him the “raven” because of the color of the priest’s soutaneous. Francis was a member there, supposedly he personally woke up that the monthly fees were received on time. One of the things that President Moretti still likes to confirm on Monday is an astonishing event that many Argentinians consider to be able to prove the existence of God. In a way Ex Aquo With the “hand of God” by Diego Armando Maradona from the 1986 World Cup quarter-finals against England. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as Francis was called with a bourgeois name, had the membership number “88235” at San Lorenzo. And he died according to the official announcement of the Vatican on Easter Monday, at the age of 88, at 2.35 a.m. Argentinian era.
The list of the 1946 championship team was able to memorize
This was only the last of a number of fantastic anecdotes of the Pope and CA San Lorenzo. He played as a boy with enthusiasm, but moderate success (“I was what you call a wooden foot in my home country”) and went as a boy to the “Viejo Gasómetro” torn in 1981, as the San Lorenzo stadium was called. Bergoglio in particular fell into the 1946 championship team; their usual line -up – blazina; Vanzina, Basso; Zubieta, Grecco, Colombo; Imbelloni, Farro, Pontoni; Martino and Oscar Silva – he also recited his old days like a credo. And both in his capacity as a “raven” and as a preacher of mercy and forgiven Franziskus knew how to forgive.
In particular, Argentina’s former national coach Alfio “Coco” is a sigh of relief. In his time as a coach of San Lorenzo, he once let “a priest” throw out of the cabin, who liked to bless the team before games. “Circle this epidemic out!” He, basil, hissed. Only when Bergoglio was elected Pope did he find out from a former club official who it was: Bergoglio.
The relationship of the head of the Catholic Church did not detract from this. He inaugurated the chapel in today’s stadium, he had regularly supplied himself from the members of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican with the results of San Lorenzo, because he had sworn off the TV decades ago. Bergoglio was currently working on the current world champion Ángel Correa, at that time at San Lorenzo, at Atlético Madrid. And: Francis even managed to convert Maradona.
The deceased “D10S” of the Argentinians, the “football god Maradona”, had created after a visit to the Vatican with John Paul II and suggested that he would sell the gold -decorated roofs of the Vatican if he wanted to do something for the poor. After a meeting with Francis, Maradona said: “The Pope inspired me to return to religion after many years. He hits my heart when he speaks of hunger in the world.”
An Argentina jersey of the number 10 hangs in a shrine in which many memorabilia of football guests of the Vatican are exhibited. In Argentina, however, nothing higher than the attempt by a TV reporter made him “a blessing for Argentina” shortly after the pope election. It was hardly heard that Francis granted him, but there was an appendix: “… and may win San Lorenzo!”
Francis will be buried on Saturday, San Lorenzo will appear with a special jersey, theoretically without President Moretti. He had decorated himself by the fact that the Pope had given him his approval of being able to name the future stadium after him: Estadio Papa Francisco. Moretti had announced that it would take part in the funeral service in Vatican City on Saturday. Now he has his office rest. It is unknown whether he intends to go to a confessional.
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