Vatican City, 18 Dec. (AKI) - The Vatican could soon have a top football team, the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, has said. "I am not ruling out that the Vatican could in the future have a soccer team of great value able to compete with (Italian top Serie A league teams) Roma, Inter, Genoa and Sampdoria," Bertone, the Vatican's equivalent of a prime minister said on Sunday. The cardinal, a staunch supporter of fallen Serie A giants Juventus - which was relegated to Serie B this season following a match-fixing scandal - is a football expert who used to comment soccer matches for a local television when he was archbishop of the port city of Genoa from 2003 until his appointment as secretary of state this year.
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This is probably all empty speculation. But it would be pretty neat.
Why not have one for the Olympics? That'd be a neat way to do some PR and outreach.
And why stop at Soccer? I'd love the Holy See to have a hoceky team-- use washed up NHL players as talent.
This has potential. :)
H/T Fed on Free Dominion
UPDATE:
Apparently, there is already a Vatican
Soccer team, taking part in the "Clericus Cup".
UPDATE #2 December 20th:
Looks like this is not going to happen. Cardinal Bertone says "I have better things to do than run a soccer team at the Vatican." ( J’ai bien d’autres choses à faire que de m’occuper d’une équipe de football au Vatican )
