{"id":45238,"date":"2021-06-01T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/06\/01\/pope-francis-praises-soccer-coachs-gesture-after-losing-champions-league-final\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:51:00","slug":"pope-francis-praises-soccer-coachs-gesture-after-losing-champions-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/06\/01\/pope-francis-praises-soccer-coachs-gesture-after-losing-champions-league-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis praises soccer coach's gesture after losing Champions League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis praised <strong>Manchester City Manager<\/strong>, Pep Guardiola for kissing his second place medal after losing the Champions League final.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned the gesture during an audience with a delegation of the Italian Basketball Federation. <\/p>\n<p><em>'Before you is the world of Italian basketball.'<\/p>\n<p><\/em>The Pope was discussing how to come to terms with defeat, and recalled that someone told him about the gesture, but that he couldn't remember who it was about.<\/p>\n<p>He said that sport is a reflection of life, and asked those present to promote the values which sport teaches. <\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n<em>\u201cPromote healthy play among children and young people, to help young people to look upwards, to never give up, to discover that though life is a journey of defeats and victories, the important thing is not to lose the desire to 'play the game.'\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/em>The delegation of the Italian Basketball Federation met with the Pope to mark 100 years since its founding.<\/p>\n<p>\nJavier Romero<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 31, 2021. The Pope was referring to Manchester City Manager, Pep Guardiola, who kissed his second place medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2nwqNsmdMMk","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpallacanestroeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpallacanestroint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}