{"id":49376,"date":"2018-05-16T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/05\/16\/pope-francis-meets-with-players-from-rapid-viena-at-vatican-1-1-1-1\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:25:00","slug":"pope-francis-meets-with-players-from-rapid-viena-at-vatican-1-1-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/05\/16\/pope-francis-meets-with-players-from-rapid-viena-at-vatican-1-1-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis meets with players from Rapid Viena at Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Players from Rapid Vienna, the winningest professional soccer team in Austria, travelled to Rome to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They were joined by Cardinal Christoph Sch\u00f6nborn and, though they're almost on vacation, there are still two games remaining in the season.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The team captain gave Pope Francis a jersey, another to add to his extensive collection of soccer shirts.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although everyone was visibly excited by the visit, the team's forward, Joelinton Cassio, couldn't miss an opportunity for an extra special moment with the Holy Father.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I hug you?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes!\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then came another...  <\/p>\n<p>Following a group photo and all the excitement, some players wasted no time publishing videos of the encounter on their social media profiles.     <br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16, 2018. Forward Joelinton Cassio asked for a hug from the Holy Father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0qN2GVwTnFo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brapidvienaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brapidvienaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49376"}],"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=49376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}