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Pope Benedict is a huge soccer fan. The Vatican’s Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone is also a huge soccer fan. And with infallible backing from God Almighty Himself, I have no doubt the soccer team the “smallest state in the world” is planning to form will kick the beejesus out of every other soccer team on this planet.

[Bertone] recently said the Holy See could form “a magnificent team” by drawing on the hundreds of Brazilian students at its pontifical universities around the world.

He used to commentate on the matches of Genoa and Sampdoria for a local TV station when he was archbishop of Genova, where both teams are based.

Bertone is not the only soccer crazy cardinal. His colleague Fiorenzo Angelini is an ardent AC Roma fan and often commentates on Serie A matches for Vatican radio.

via CNN

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