(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Pope Francis is presented with a San Lorenzo soccer team jersey by Colombian former player Ivan Ramiro Cordoba during the pontiff’s weekly general audience in St. Peter’s ...

2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file) Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, left, greets Pope Francis in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio ...

From meetings with Diego Maradona to the passion for his beloved Buenos Aires club, San Lorenzo, Pope Francis was an avid soccer fan. And a promoter of sports in general. Francis died Monday at 88 ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Like so many other professional soccer teams around the world ... corporate name displayed so prominently on the team's jersey may be a foreign idea to U.S. sports fans, Checketts ...

ROME (AP) — Top-flight soccer matches in Italy and Argentina were postponed after the death of Pope Francis on Monday. The Buenos Aires club that the Argentine pontiff supported throughout his ...

Four top-flight soccer matches in Italy were postponed after the death of Pope Francis on Monday and the Buenos Aires club that the Argentine pontiff supported throughout his life mourned its most ...

Pope Francis, a diehard soccer fan, was once given a signed Patrick Mahomes jersey from a Missouri bishop. The pope, 88, died Monday. Vatican Media/Abaca Press/Sipa USA As people around the world ...

Michael Sansone, a left-handed reliever for Salem, the Red Sox Single-A affiliate, strolled from the bullpen to the mound on ...