'Tycsports' publishes a very curious news: there is an Italian team that ascends in category every time a Papa. Since 1958, every time Avellino It manages to climb the category coincides with the death (or resignation) of the Pontiff and 2025 was no exception since a few days before the death of Pope Francis he achieved the return to series B.
On Saturday, the team of the Campania region defeated Sorrento 2-1 and with that mathematically victory its ticket to the Second Calcium Division was secured. Two days later the death of the Supreme Pontiff was confirmed. Every time Avellino managed to get on the category, that same year a Pope died.
The first antecedent takes place in 1958 with the death of Pope Pius XII and the rise of the 4th division to the series C. only five years later returned to series C, a 1963 in which John XXIII dies. Pablo V continued, whose death in 1978, gave rise to Juan Pablo I, the famous 'Pope of the 33 days' because he lasted just over a month in the position before his death; A tragic year where the 'wolves' managed to ascend for the first and only time to series A.
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After the instability, a long papacy arrived by John Paul II, who died in 2005, but that did not mean that the story is repeated again, since the Campania team won the Napoli to return to series B. Its passage through the second category did not last long but in 2013 it managed to return, a year in which Benedict XVI made history to be the first Pope to give up his position in more than 600 years.
