Vatican City national football team. The Vatican City national football team Italian Selezione di calcio della Citt del Vaticano is the football team that represents Vatican City under the control of the Federazione Vaticanese Giuoco Calcio, headquartered in the Vaticans Cortile di San Damaso. The Vatican City football association was founded in 1. Its current president is Domenico Ruggerio. Gianfranco Guadagnoli, an Italian, is the current head coach. The team has been managed by Giovanni Trapattoni in the past. His first match as manager was played on 2. October 2. 01. 0 when Vatican City faced a team composed of Italian financial police. The team played its first match in 1. Austrian journalists. Overviewedit. A carousel in the Cortile del Belvedere in 1. Vatican. Jersey worn by Vatican City in April 2. Monaco. In the year 2. Pope John Paul II established a Vatican sports department with the aim of reinvigorating the tradition of sport within the Christian community. In 2. Vatican Secretary of State. Cardinal. Tarcisio Bertone suggested that the Vatican could field a team of men from Catholic seminaries. About the prospect, the cardinal stated, If we just take the Brazilian students from our Pontifical universities we could have a magnificent squad. The cardinal also noted that in the 1. FIFA World Cup, there were 4. Salesian training centres worldwide. For example, Marcelino, Spanish hero of the 1. European Nations Cup was a former seminarian. It was Bertones proposal that the Vaticans players, even if accepted by UEFA, would be drawn from the population within the Catholic Church worldwide, not just citizens of Vatican City. He was unclear at the time whether the Vatican would grant these players Vatican citizenship to make this possible. With the smallest population of any nation, approximately 9. The Vatican City squad consists entirely of employees of the Vatican police officers, postal workers, government officials and members of the Swiss Guard, the Vaticans de facto army, charged with protecting the pope. Since most Vatican citizens are members of the Swiss Guard, they cannot be amassed in large numbers for a long time. Therefore, the national team has played only a few rare international matches, often drawing a fair amount of interested press. When Vatican City played its first match in 2. Marcello Rosati, had a Vatican passport. In 2. 00. 6, Vatican City was invited to participate in the Viva World Cup by the N. F. Board and were expected to participate1. In total, Vatican City have played only four full international matches against other nations, one draw and three defeats to Monaco in 2. In addition to its full international matches, the team has played a friendly match, its first, against the San Marino reserve team in 1. The final score of that match is believed to be a 00 draw but Steve Menarys book Outcasts The Lands that FIFA Forgot states that Vatican insiders told him that the match ended 11. In 2. 01. 0, the Vatican organized a team to play a friendly game against Palestine. However, the team was made up of Catholic priests and was not considered the Vatican City national team. Prince Rar' title='Prince Rar' />Primordial late 60s Detroit rock from SRC at the time thought of as the chief rival of the now much more reverently remembered MC5 but still a piledriving. Undoubtedly the woman who had come to epitomize what we recognize today as celebrity, Zsa Zsa Gabor, is better known for her many marriages. In 2. 00. 6, the Vatican City played SV Vollmond, a team from Switzerland, at Stadio Petriana with Vatican City prevailing 51. The team has also competed against a representative team from the Diocese of Limburg. In September 2. 01. Manlio Scopigno Stadium in Rieti to raise funds for earthquake victims. Former Italian international Simone Perrotta also participated in the tournament. Vatican footballing history began on 7 January 1. Vatican in the Cortile del Belvedere, in the presence of Pope Leo X. The first Vatican league was created in 1. LOsservatore Romano, the newspaper of the Holy See. The Vatican has typically expressed strong support for football. Pope John Paul II was reportedly a goalkeeper in his youth in Poland, and an ardent supporter of Cracovia Krakw. The former German pope Pope Benedict XVI is an ardent supporter of Bayern Munich since his youth growing up in Bavaria, Germany. Benedict is quoted as saying, The sport of football can be a vehicle of education for the values of honesty, solidarity and fraternity, especially for the younger generation. In October 2. 00. Pope was presented with a 1. Serie B side Ancona after Benedict supported their initiative to become a beacon of morality by adopting an innovative, ethical model of practising football. Lexmark T644 Printer Service Manual more. In 2. 01. 0, Benedict and the Vatican reaffirmed their belief that football should be a beacon of morality by lashing out at Serie A after matches for the upcoming season were scheduled at 1. Sundays to appease pay per view companies wishing to spread out Serie A matches over the weekend. The Vatican previously questioned the leagues decision to play matches on Sundays at all, but I consider this a truly harmful development, Monsignor Carlo Mazza told Tuttosport. Prince Rar' title='Prince Rar' />Putting people in front of the television screen at 1. CET, when they are having lunch with their families, to me seems like a pitch invasion on life. Additionally, on 1. December 2. 00. 6, Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See, stated, but only in jest, that he did not preclude the possibility that the Vatican, in the future, could put together a football team of great value, that could play on the same level as, Roma, Internazionale and Milan or Genoa. The current Argentinian pope, Pope Francis is an ardent fan of his hometown club San Lorenzo,2. Argentina lost the 2. World Cup final against Germany. FIFA membershipeditThe Vatican is one of only nine fully recognized sovereign states whose national team is not a FIFA member. The others are the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom though the UKs three countries England, Scotland, Wales and one provience Northern Ireland have individual FIFA teams. In May 2. 01. 4, Domenico Ruggerio, president of the FA, stated that I prefer to be amateur. To join FIFA, at that level, will be like a business after stating The important message of friendship and love is demonstrated by the sport  the real sport, not the business that is in football these days. It is not just important to win a match it is how you carry yourself. Therefore, that, he added, meant that the ethos of the Vaticans soccer team was, at odds with FIFA membership. The teams current kit is provided by Sportika SA. Descargar Gratis Adobe Flash Player Hd Para Windows 7'>Descargar Gratis Adobe Flash Player Hd Para Windows 7. The current kit has an image of Saint Peters Basilica ghosted on the front. In the past, the kit has been provided by Diadora. The shorts are all white while the top is solid yellow with a narrow blue and white line around the right upper quadrant of the body. MatcheseditAgainst other nationsedit  Win  Draw  Loss. Current squadeditPlayers called up for the international friendlies against Monaco on 2. June 2. 01. 32. 7CoacheseditSee alsoeditNuti, Nicola. Vaticano 7 squadre per il campionato di calcio in Italian. News Cattoliche. Retrieved 2. August 2. 01. 6.   abcd. Montague, James. A Friendly Game for a Beatific State. The New York Times. Retrieved 1. 3 May 2. Vaticano. fedefutbol. Retrieved 1. 9 March 2. The things they say Giovanni Trapattoni. FIFA. Retrieved 1. March 2. 01. 2.  Trapattoni betreut Vatikan Auswahl in German. Retrieved 1. 6 May 2. Ferrera, Elena. VATICANO NEL PALLONE CON SQUADRE PAPALI in Italian.