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Pope Francis plays with Natale Tonini, president of Sport Toscana Calcio Balilla association, astatine the extremity of the play wide audience, Wednesday, Aug.18. 2021. Francis played a circular connected the array that was presented to him by representatives of a the association, that created a peculiar Foosball array designed to beryllium inclusive, for radical with carnal disabilities, to promote their information successful sport. (Vatican Media via AP)

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has received dozens of shot jerseys and crippled balls during his eight-year pontificate but helium got a caller football-themed artifact connected Wednesday: his precise ain foosball table.

Francis played a circular connected the array that was presented to him astatine the extremity of his wide assemblage by representatives of a Tuscany-based array shot association, Sport Toscana Calcio Balilla successful Altopascio.

The politician of Altopascio, Sara D’Ambrosio, wrote connected Facebook that the array was designed to beryllium inclusive and enactment good for radical with carnal disabilities to promote their information successful sport.

The Argentine-born pope is simply a well-known person of shot and his beloved San Lorenzo shot nine successful Buenos Aires. He has agelong promoted athletics arsenic a mode to beforehand solidarity and inclusion, particularly for young people.

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