Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21, just one day after the end of Holy Week in which he had some participations to commemorate this special date for religious, but did not reach to celebrate Easter.
Everyone joined the condolences for the death of the Argentine religious and in Colombia the times are remembered that the coffee football teams had approaches with the Pope to bless their shirts.
In the list, many shirts appear that were granted to Pope Francis, from the Colombian National Team, Millionaires and even modest such as Jaguares or Envigado.
The Colombian National Team had that fortune and it was Alejandro Éder, current mayor of Cali, who gave him the 'Tricolor' shirt signed by Carlos 'Pibe' Valedarrama.
Millionaires was one of those who was fortunate to take the shirt to the Pope and was the Colombian Monsignor Alirio López who offered him that of the 'Ambassador' in 2013.
Another of Colombia's historic as Junior de Barranquilla also gave Pope Francis a garment signed by club players, thanks to Alejandro Char.
🇨🇴 Pope Francis and the connection with Colombian football
👕 The most football pontiff in history, had several gifts, including some FPC shirts
👉 Do you remember? pic.twitter.com/BGL7wW86bS
— AS Colombia 🇨🇴 (@AS_Colombia) April 21, 2025
FPC teams that had the Pope's fortune
Pope Francis not only had in his hands t -shirts of legendary clubs in Colombia, but also modest teams were fortune, being Jaguares de Córdoba, envigado and sports Pereira who managed to be blessed.
The love for Pope Francis's football caused this gap to break and football would take more prominence, achieving this papacy to be historical thanks to that closeness with a hobby that unites the world.
