Francisco, the pope who has not seen Argentina won the 2022 World Cup

Pope Francis, who died on Monday at Age 88, was one of the few Argentines on the Planet who did not see Leo messi Raise the World Cup in 2022, due to a promise to make Virgen del Carmen in 1990.

Francisco, fan confessed from San Lorenzo And followers during his youth in football, he was a great sport allies during his pontificate. He created, in fact, the ‘Party for Peace’, in which he combined more than 150 stars in 3 editions filled with the Olympic of Rome, with the last held in 2022 as a tribute to Diego Armando Maradona.

However, the pope did not see the two most important games in the history of the national team: The final lost in Germany in Brazil in 2014 and the final French winner in Qatar in 2022.

One day after the 86th anniversary

Francisco He was 86 on December 17, 2022. One day later, on the 18th, Argentina played against France the grand final of the World Cup.

“I am gathered with 5 Alitalia pilot and their wives. They like Francisco recalled in an interview with ‘La Nación’ in March 2023.

“When I came back they told me, he won 3-2 or 3-1, I don’t remember. added

And he reflects: “It is capable of it is something that has no foundation, haHe reflects.

‘The two final potatoes’

The legend was in 2014, in the final World Cup in Brazil, Francisco and Benedict XVI, German Joseph Ratzinger, They saw the final together. ‘The final of two potatoes’, Called it. There is nothing more than a rumor that feeds on the movie ‘The two potatoes’, of Brazilian Fernando MeirellesReleased in 2019.

The fact is that the pope stopped watching television in 1990 for a promise to make Virgen del Carmen. “I said to myself: ‘It will not help the heart'”, expressed in the same interview.

“Sometimes I saw television, huh? When some presidents put his position, when the plane (Buenos Aires) collapsed in 1999 … the little things I saw in them. But I didn’t watch television,” punished.