Vatican City football selection

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Vatican city
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Association Federazione Vaticanese Giuoco Calcio
Technical sponsor Sportika
Head coach Vatican cityVatican Gianfranco Guadagnoli
Home stadium Stadio Pio XII (1500) Albano Laziale , Italy
ItalyItaly 
FIFA code VAT
First jersey
Second jersey
(As of June 10, 2017)

The football selection of the Vatican City ( Italian : Selezione di calcio della Città del Vaticano ) consists of Swiss guards, papal councils and museum guards. As the Vatican is neither a member of the world football association FIFA nor of the European football association UEFA , the team does not take part in qualifying matches for football world and European championships . It is set up by the umbrella organization Federazione Vaticanese Giuoco Calcio .

Because only a few hundred people have Vatican citizenship and these cannot be dispensed with in large numbers for a long period of time, the team can only very rarely play friendly matches. The attempt to participate in the so-called World Cup for non-members of FIFA failed because of this very problem.

Colloquially and in media perception, the football selection is often referred to as the national team .

Selection of games

November 23, 2002 Vatican cityVatican Vatican 0-0 MonacoMonaco Monaco
May 7, 2011 Vatican cityVatican Vatican 1: 2 MonacoMonaco Monaco
June 22, 2013 MonacoMonaco Monaco 2-0 Vatican cityVatican Vatican
May 10, 2014 Vatican cityVatican Vatican 0: 2 MonacoMonaco Monaco
August 10, 2014 GermanyGermany Borussia Mönchengladbach
(traditional team) 		8: 1 Vatican cityVatican Vatican
April 29, 2017 Vatican cityVatican Vatican 0-0 MonacoMonaco Monaco
June 6, 2019 Vatican cityVatican Vatican 1: 1 GermanyGermany German national football team of winegrowers - WEINELF

Stadion

Since the Vatican City is too small for a soccer field, the "home games" outside the city-state are played in the Stadio Pio XII . The Stadio Pio XII is located in Albano Laziale . The stadium can seat around 1500 people.

Jerseys

There are only 400 of the football team's jerseys in the Vatican City, all of which are owned by the Vatican. The technical sponsor is the Italian sporting goods manufacturer Sportika .

In April 2018, the football team signed a three-year sponsorship agreement with the Poderi di San Pietro winery and for the first time in its history has jersey advertising.

Trainer

Giovanni Trapattoni trained the selection in 2010

Women team

There was a first women's football game by Vatican employees in summer 2018. A women's team, the Vatican FC , of the Vatican was founded in 2018 and has actually been in existence since May 2019. It is made up of employees from various companies, such as the children's clinic, and institutions of the Vatican , as well as relatives - wives and daughters - of employees. The team of 25 women can be formed from a pool of around 750 female employees in addition to the relatives of the employees. The captain is the Cameroonian striker Eugene Tcheugoue , who works in the Vatican Curia for Laity, Family and Life . It played its first game against the women of AS Roma .

It was invited to a friendly game on June 22, 2019 at the 20th anniversary of the Austrian third division club FC Mariahilf (FCM) in Vienna. In support of the LGBTIQ movement, the corner flags were colored rainbow . When after the exchange of gifts, while playing the Vatican hymn the players from Mariahilf " showed " Pro Choice "messages written on their stomach and back - that is, appeals that women have the right to have an abortion ," said the nuncio in Austria , Pedro López Quintana , stop the game.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Example: Vatican Radio: The ball is rolling again from March 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Elo Ratings Vatican ( Memento of the original dated June 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eloratings.net
  3. ↑ Weisweiler Elf plays for the Vatican team. In: rp-online.de. October 8, 2015, accessed December 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Landesschau Rhineland-Palatinate: German wine eleven draws against the Vatican. swrmediathek.de, June 7, 2019, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ Vatican: Football team with a winery as sponsor. In: vaticannews.va. April 7, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Article on www.sportinvaticano.com , accessed on June 10, 2017 (Italian).
  7. ^ After scandal: Vatican women's soccer team does not compete. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Vatican now with its own women's soccer team. May 15, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Note. This football club became active in 1999, has its club premises in Vienna's 6th district of Mariahilf and plays in the Simmering district . Since 2004 there is women's football at FC Mariahilf, today (2019) several female teams. The FCM is socially committed and has been playing an annual benefit tournament for the Gruft homeless organization since 2003 .
  10. ↑ FC Mariahilf - more than a football club> Social commitment fc-mariahilf.at, accessed June 23, 2019.
  11. ↑ Sport: Vatican women team said game from orf.at, June 22, 2019, accessed June 23, 2019.