"The Vatican Mulls fielding Football team"!

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Is he talking about a national team or a club team? The article is somewhat ambiguous in that regard. If he is talking about a national team, the short answer is that there is no way that any team based on nationality of Vatican City would be competitive. Since he compares the Vatican team with Roma and Lazio and other Serie A clubs, then presumably he is talking about a club team. I suppose the Catholic Church as the money necessary to field a competitive team. 😉 Still, the Vatican would need special permission from FIFA to enter a team in the Italian leagues since Vatican City is a separate City State from Rome and Italy.
 
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Now I am getting mad:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

It is soccer not football !!!

Now I am getting even crankier:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

The Lazio soccer club does not and will never be worth of cleaning the cleats of the Roma soccer club.

Daje Lupi so’ finiti li tempi cupi!!!
 
I’m sorry but all I can see is a team of Cardinals attempting to kick the ball with their cassocks on. And I guess the team color would have to be purple 😃

But a little more seriously, it would be a great public relations effort! Maybe it would help the world look at the Vatican in a better light 👍
 
Belfarmer said:
I’m sorry but all I can see is a team of Cardinals attempting to kick the ball with their cassocks on. And I guess the team color would have to be purple 😃

But a little more seriously, it would be a great public relations effort! Maybe it would help the world look at the Vatican in a better light 👍
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If you grew up in Rome you would know to be careful in playing against a team of seminarians. You should know that when the start lifting their cassocks to kick the ball they will not stop even if your leg is in the way, and they kick hard.
 
Cristiano said:
If you grew up in Rome you would know to be careful in playing against a team of seminarians. You should know that when the start lifting their cassocks to kick the ball they will not stop even if your leg is in the way, and they kick hard.
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:rotfl:

How good are they at taking dives and faking injuries to get extra penalties though?
 
Cristiano said:
Now I am getting mad:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

It is soccer not football !!!
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Are you serious?! Are you trying to tell me that so-called “American football” is the “real” football? You’ve got to be kidding me… First of all, American football is based on rugby (what I would call “rugby union”) which has some claim to the name “football”, as it developed at the same time as football in England, it was just played a different way at different places. But football (what you call “soccer”) is the original and you don’t even use your feet in American football! Once every four plays maybe?! It should be called “American handball”. At least in rugby union they actually kick the ball a bit…
 
In the English-speaking world it is generally called soccer, but the rest of the world calls it football, fussball, fúbol, or in “Espanglish” areas, “fútbol-soccer”. In Mexican newspapers the game played with the pointy ball is called American football,
Rah, Rah, Ree,
Kick 'em in the knee.
Go Hounds of Heaven!
 
When I was growing up American football was ‘gridiron’.

Rugby, preferably rugby league, or Australian Rules were the real ‘football’ with the World Game (as in the World Cup is watched by more people than the Olympics) having, at least until our recent noteworthy debut in the World Cup, been a very distant fourth.
 
I saw this today. It seems that the Vatican is thinking about entering a team in the Italian lower divisons and given the way Italain soccer works, the team could, in theory, get promoted to the big leagues. Given the ethiocal and criminal morass that is Serie A these days though, I doubt it is in our Church’s interest to field a team.

Pope JP II was a keeper as a teenager (and a pretty good one too supposedly). As a former keeper, I think that is what kept him humble.
 
Atreyu said:
Are you serious?! Are you trying to tell me that so-called “American football” is the “real” football? You’ve got to be kidding me… First of all, American football is based on rugby (what I would call “rugby union”) which has some claim to the name “football”, as it developed at the same time as football in England, it was just played a different way at different places. But football (what you call “soccer”) is the original and you don’t even use your feet in American football! Once every four plays maybe?! It should be called “American handball”. At least in rugby union they actually kick the ball a bit…
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Association Football, Rugby, American Football…they all developed at about the same time. Probably the same for Australian Rules Football. It just so happens that in the US, Australia and Canada their version of football evolved into something very different than soccer as we know it now.
 
amcalabrese said:
I saw this today. It seems that the Vatican is thinking about entering a team in the Italian lower divisons and given the way Italain soccer works, the team could, in theory, get promoted to the big leagues. Given the ethiocal and criminal morass that is Serie A these days though, I doubt it is in our Church’s interest to field a team.
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Good point. What sort of scandal would it be if members of the Vatican team became sullied by the pervasive corruption of Italian football? Also, is it a good idea to field a team that competes with the favorite teams of your faithful? What sort of choice is a fan of Roma or Lazio or AC Milan or Internationale going to make when his two religions collide on the pitch? Will he choose his faith or his club? 😉 😃 This is a really, really bad idea on the part of Rome. You’ll easily loose more adherents than you’ll gain by the publicity! 😛
 
rr1213 said:
Association Football, Rugby, American Football…they all developed at about the same time. Probably the same for Australian Rules Football. It just so happens that in the US, Australia and Canada their version of football evolved into something very different than soccer as we know it now.
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The versions of football that are probably closed to the original game (other than the “calcio storico” still occasionally played in Florence) was probably the Gaelic version. Aussie Rules probably come closest to also.

At the time American football was first developing, what would become “association football” (soccer) and rugby had not yet diverged. In the “kicking game” you could catch the ball under some rules, you just could not run with it.

The first American soccer club is usually identified as the Onedias of Boston. But on further research, they probably played a game closer to rugby than soccer. Further, the original Rutgers-Princeton game, which is usually cited as the first intercollegite (American) football game, probably played with rules closer to soccer than rugby.

One thing to remember is that the rules for various codes did not look recognizable until about 1900. Even then American and Canadian football continued to evolve, while soccer looks relatively the same.
 
rr1213 said:
Also, is it a good idea to field a team that competes with the favorite teams of your faithful? What sort of choice is a fan of Roma or Lazio or AC Milan or Internationale going to make when his two religions collide on the pitch? Will he choose his faith or his club? 😉 😃
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There was a Milanese priest who was a huge AC Milan fan, as was his entire flock. Every Sunday, as soon as his last Mass ended, he ran to the stadium or to the rectory to watch the team play. He was a very saintly man, much beloved by his flock. When he was old, we became ill and knew his time on Earth was short. Many of his parishioners circled around his death bed, to say goodbye. One asked if he had any request.

“Bury me in an Inter Milan shirt” the priest answered.

This surprised his parishioners, as they all knew him to be an AC Milan supporter. So they asked why he wanted to be buried in the shirt of the hated Inter Milian.

“So you can bury one of THEM” the priest replied.
 
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