The journalist asked Leão XIV to organize the charity game
Pope Leo XIV made a joke, this Monday (12), suggesting that a tennis match is good, since the Italian tennis player, Jannik Sinner, considered number one in the world, does not participate.
At the end of his first meeting with Vatican journalists, Robert Francis Prevost was under pressure by a journalist to organize a beneficial tennis organization for pontifical missionary works, given his passion for sport and replied: “Okay, Ok”.
In turn, the journalist insisted: “Porto Agassi,” he said in reference to the former American tennis player Andre Agassi, winner of eight Grand Slam titles.
Prevost then replied: “Do not bring the sinner”, playing with the double sense that Italian is the number one in the world and his surname means “sinner” in English. In an interview with the Catholic newspaper of Chicago “Augustinian Order” in 2023, the first American pontiff in history, Robert Francis Prevost, had already declared his love for the courts.
At the time, the then cardinal said he considered a “very amateur tennis player”. “Since I left Peru, I had few opportunities to practice, so I can’t wait to go back to court. Not that this new job has left me a lot of free time so far,” he said. .
Source: Terra
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