Fan 88235: Pope Francis honored by hometown soccer team in Argentina

DETROIT — (Alan Vanegas) Like most Argentines, Pope Francis was a loyal soccer fan and San Lorenzo de Almagro was his favorite team, a club that dedicated several tributes to him after his death at the age of 88. Last Monday, April 21, Pope Francis passed away due to health problems and […] The post San Lorenzo dedicates tributes to Pope Francis, who was a fan of the club appeared first on Latino Detroit.

SCAN SPORT - In a case that is currently making a scandal in Argentina, Marcelo Moretti, president of the San Lorenzo club, was filmed receiving $25,000 in a meeting with the mother of a young player.

Fan 88235: Pope Francis honored by hometown soccer team in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina-born Pope Francis, who died on Monday, April 21, is being honored at his local hometown soccer club in Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo de Almagro, where the football-loving head of the Roman Catholic Church remained a member during his 12-year papacy. Fans from the first-tier Primera División club started gathering from Monday at the club’s chapel to the south-west of the Argentine capital to bid farewell to their b…

It seemed that San Lorenzo had found some peace with its strong results in the 2025 Apertura. But the hidden camera footage of president Marcelo Moretti, in which he is seen receiving $25,000 in cash—in two payments—to supposedly bring a youth player to the Blaugrana youth system, reignited the institutional crisis the club has been experiencing for several years. In this context, the main opposition figures to the winners of the 2023 elections …

Buenos Aires, March 22. – The Argentine football club San Lorenzo fired yesterday Monday “with deep pain” to his most famous fan, Pope Francis. “He left this world, but he will never leave our hearts,” emphasized the San Lorenzo club in a statement, in which they added that “he weeps at all latitudes, with consternation, and sends him away with the greatest possible admiration. His footprint will be indelible.” The club is from the Bajo Flores n…

The president of San Lorenzo is the protagonist of a scandal that impacts Argentine football. The post After the scandal, the AFA made a decision with San Lorenzo and Moretti: «The most serious penalty» appeared first on El Intranssigente.