Argentina team travels to World Cup with huge Pope Francis photo

Pope Francis meets with students in Paul VI audience hall on May 31 2014 Credit Daniel Ibez CNA 8 CNA 5 31 14 Pope Francis meets with students in Paul VI audience hall on May 31, 2014. | Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

The Argentinean team playing for the World Cup is bringing with it a larger-than-life photo of the players with Pope Francis, at a meeting in the Vatican last year.

The team hopes that the picture showing Lionel Messi and teammates with the Holy Father will "give a message of hope prior to the beginning of the World Cup," reported the publication Diario Castellanos, which posted an image of the giant photo on Twitter:








 

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