The Pontiff greeted a group of former footballers from the club in which “El Diez” shone between 1984 and 1991 at the end of the General Audience this Wednesday in the Paul VI Hall.
In the greeting, the Neapolitan director Gigi Pavarese and the ex-companions of the “Pelusa” Bruno Giordano and Salvatore Bagni, remembered the “Pibe de Oro” in front of the Pontiff, one day after the first anniversary of the death of the idol.
The meeting, which according to Neapolitan sources told Télam was organized by the priest Ambrogio Cost, was also attended by former players Massimo Filardi, Raffaele Di Fusco and Giuseppe Volpecina.
“I met Diego Armando Maradona on the occasion of a party for Peace in 2014: I remember with pleasure everything Diego did for Scholas Occurrentes, the foundation that takes care of the most needy around the world”, said the Pope earlier this year in an interview.
“On the field he was a poet, a great champion who gave joy to millions of people, in Argentina as in Naples. He was also a very fragile man,” he later added in statements to the sports daily Corriere dello Sport.
Upon learning of Maradona’s death, Francisco recalled “fondly the times he met with him in recent years and remembers him in his prayers, as he did in recent days when he was informed of his situation,” the director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Matteo Bruni.
Source From: Ambito
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