He Pope Franciswho died on Monday at 7.35 in the morning, he never hid his fondness for football, especially his love for San Lorenzo de Almagro. He was not so surprised to unmarked from the eternal debate between Maradona either Messi and choose as best footballer in history a Brazilian legend: ‘O Rei’ Pelé.
“Maradona or Messi? I would add a third, Pelé. They are the three that I have followed. Maradona was a great, but as a man failed. Messi is very correct, a man. But for me, of these three, the best is Pelé,” he said in an interview in the ‘Italian Rai’.
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For the Pope, sport was a fundamental instrument to build a better society. “Sport is a means to express the talents themselves, but also to build society. Sport teaches us the value of fraternity (…) in the field, no matter the origin, language or culture of a person. What matters is the commitment and common objective. This unit in sport is a powerful metaphor of our lives. It reminds us that, despite our differences, we are all members of the same human family,” he said at the beginning of the same year.
