{"id":91539,"date":"2014-06-13T19:39:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=91539"},"modified":"2014-06-13T19:39:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:39:44","slug":"pope-francis-confirms-world-cup-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=91539","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Confirms World Cup Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75671\" alt=\"\u0540\u057c\u0578\u0574\u056b \u057a\u0561\u057a\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pap.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>He recently renewed his Argentine passport and remains an official card-carrying member of his favorite Buenos Aires football club. But Pope Francis has pledged absolute neutrality for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Francis recalled during an interview published Friday with the Barcelona newspaper &#8220;La Vanguardia,&#8221; that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff had asked him during a February visit to the Vatican to at least be neutral during the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Laughing, Francis said: &#8220;The Brazilians asked for neutrality. I&#8217;ll keep my word because Brazil and Argentina are always opponents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Francis issued a video message pep talk to players and fans alike, urging them to make the World Cup a showcase for teamwork and solidarity and not an exhibition of racism, individualism and greed.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina plays its first match Sunday, against Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He recently renewed his Argentine passport and remains an official card-carrying member of his favorite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,158,137],"tags":[1249,11196],"class_list":["post-91539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-sport","category-world","tag-pope-francis","tag-world-cup-neutrality","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}