{"id":65828,"date":"2024-03-01T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=65828"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:50:55","slug":"the-meeting-between-pope-francis-and-a-soccer-team-of-migrants-and-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2024\/03\/01\/the-meeting-between-pope-francis-and-a-soccer-team-of-migrants-and-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"The meeting between Pope Francis and a soccer team of migrants and refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It's no secret that Pope Francis is a soccer fan. And as an Argentinean, it is normal that soccer is his favorite sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br><\/strong><em>Soccer is a team game and this is good for everyone. Many define soccer as the most beautiful game in the world\u2014I think so too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this reason, after his General Audience, the Pope greeted this special team and even signed their pennant and soccer ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The players of this team are migrants and refugees. They traveled through the night to be in Rome with the Pope, who encouraged them to continue in this sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANTONIO PALMA<br>Chairman, \u201cRiscita Refugees\u201d team<\/strong><br><em>Most of them are Muslims, but the Pope is always very close to them. They have great respect for the figure of the Pope, because they consider him an important person, who works for peace and, above all, for the integration and social inclusion of these young people, who flee their homelands for various reasons: for nature, for religious problems, for political problems. And so they come to Europe, to Italy, with the desire to have a better future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours before meeting with Pope Francis, the players participated in a friendly match with the so-called \u201cPope's Team.\u201d In that match, as the president of the team said, what mattered least was the final score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CA<br>TR: AT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the General Audience, the Pope greeted this special team and even signed their pennant and soccer ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":65825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SDM9SliW3hw","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brandomfootballmigrantieng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brandomfootballmigrantiint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65828"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65830,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65828\/revisions\/65830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}