{"id":45614,"date":"2021-02-19T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/02\/19\/pope-to-soccer-players-from-sampdoria-team-sports-are-a-path-to-holiness\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:41:00","slug":"pope-to-soccer-players-from-sampdoria-team-sports-are-a-path-to-holiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/02\/19\/pope-to-soccer-players-from-sampdoria-team-sports-are-a-path-to-holiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope to soccer players from Sampdoria team: \u201cSports are a path to holiness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting between the pope and the Sampdoria soccer team from Genova, kicked off with this touching moment with one of the president's kids.<\/p>\n<p>Claudio Ranieri, who went down in history for turning Leicester into the champion in England in 2016, couldn't contain his joy.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFather, good morning. I train these guys. I bring you my greetings, our greetings. We are very happy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis reflected on what sports can offer people. He said sports can help the person grow and reach unimaginable heights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cIt's a path of life, maturity and holiness. You can move forward, but never alone. Always with the team. Always with the team<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In Argentina, we say that the soccer player who plays for himself 'eats' the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They met on the eve of a match between Sampdoria and Lazio, one of Rome's teams. Pope Francis met with the latter a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell which team will most benefit from the pope's blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Romero<\/p>\n<p>Translation: CT<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2021. Claudio Ranieri, the coach who went down in history for turning Leicester into the champion in England in 2016, couldn't contain his joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bCSbmephUf4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsampdoriaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsampdoriaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45614"}],"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=45614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}