{"id":45729,"date":"2021-01-20T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/01\/20\/sports-bring-out-the-best-in-us-the-pope-says-to-la-spezia-soccer-team\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:25:00","slug":"sports-bring-out-the-best-in-us-the-pope-says-to-la-spezia-soccer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/01\/20\/sports-bring-out-the-best-in-us-the-pope-says-to-la-spezia-soccer-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports bring out the best in us, the pope says to La Spezia soccer team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis welcomed soccer players from La Spezia after their surprising victory against Rome in the \u201cCoppa Italia.\u201d Pope Francis congratulated them with humor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn Argentina they dance tango, and tango music is in two-four time, and today, you are 4-2.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>La Spezia gave the pope a jersey with the number one and a soccer ball signed by all the players. The water polo team sent him this other autographed ball and this cap.<\/p>\n<p>During their meeting, the pope encouraged them to live out the virtues through sports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI like to see young men and women's efforts in sports because sports are a marvel. Sports bring out the best in us. Continue with this because it is very noble.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To conclude their meeting, all the players posed like they do before the start of a match, but this time next to the pope, for a photograph that will forever remain in the memory of the Italian team.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20 2021. Pope Francis met with Italian soccer team La Spezia after their victory against Rome in the \u201cCoppa Italia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/m9Vcs6PAImU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaudienzaspeziaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaudienzaspeziaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45729"}],"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=45729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}