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Vatican City national football team
The Vatican City national football team ((イタリア語:Selezione di calcio della Città del Vaticano)) is the football team that represents Vatican City. The Vatican City football association was founded in 1972. Its current president is Domenico Ruggerio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fedefutbol.net/fed.aspx?id=VAT )〕 Gianfranco Guadagnoli, an Italian, is the current head coach.〔 The team has been managed by Giovanni Trapattoni in the past.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1442357.html )〕 His first match as manager was played on 23 October 2010 when Vatican City faced a team composed of Italian financial police.
== Overview ==
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II established a Vatican sports department with the aim of "reinvigorating the tradition (of sport) within the Christian community".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=113173.html )〕 In 2006, 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 1990 FIFA World Cup, there were 42 players in the final round who attended Salesian training centres worldwide.〔 For example, Marcelino, Spanish hero of the 1964 European Nations' Cup was a former seminarian. It was Bertone's proposal that the Vatican's 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 900, it is difficult to form a squad. The Vatican City squad consists entirely of employees of the Vatican: police officers, postal workers, government officials and members of the Swiss Guard, the Vatican’s 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 2002, only one player, Marcello Rosatti, had a Vatican passport. In 2006, Vatican City was invited to participate in the Viva World Cup by the N.F.-Board and were expected to participate but were unable to do so because they could not assemble a 15-man roster. In total, Vatican City have played only four full international matches against other nations, one draw and three defeats to Monaco in 2002, 2011, 2013, and 2014 respectively.
In addition to its full international matches, the team has played a friendly match, its first, against the San Marino reserve team in 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://thepathslesstravelled.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/vatican-football/ )〕 The final score of that match is believed to be a 0–0 draw but Steve Menary’s book ‘Outcasts: The Lands that FIFA Forgot’ states that Vatican insiders told him that the match ended 1–1.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sbbu.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/praying-for-a-win-the-vatican-city-at-world-cup-2014/ )〕 In 2010, 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. In 2006, the Vatican City played SV Vollmond, a team from Switzerland, at Stadio Petriana with Vatican City prevailing 5–1.
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