The CT of the Volley Women, born in La Plata, recalls Bergoglio as follows: “He did what he could to innovate the Church. The first time he looked out in St. Peter and said ‘good’ with that accent, I thought he was missing only the mate …”
Argentinity in common, but different roots. Pope Francis came from a family of Italians emigrated from Piedmont. Julio Velasco – the coach of Italy Volleyball Women, Olympic gold at the Paris 2024 games – had the Peruvian father and, due to mother, English and Ligurian origins (Camogli). “I am not Catholic, we were evangelical methodists – explains Velasco -. Today I am Agnostic. Religions have been the first moral organization of all human communities and play a very useful role. However, I believe that the” churches “of the various religions are responsible for many non -positive things, and I do not refer only to the many deaths in the name of any God, I think of the multiple cultural rigidity that the different confessions impose”.