{"id":313714,"date":"2021-04-02T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=313714"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:48:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:48:27","slug":"football-team-manager-i-became-a-practicing-orthodox-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/football-team-manager-i-became-a-practicing-orthodox-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Football team manager: &#8220;I became a practicing Orthodox Christian&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dinamo Bucharest football team manager, Mario Nicolae, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsp.ro\/fotbal\/liga-1\/oficialul-lui-dinamo-isi-explica-infatisarea-vreau-sa-fiu-un-marturisitor-al-ortodoxiei-626566.html\">video<\/a> that he started to put his Orthodox faith into practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made in response to those interested in why he left his hair long and grew a beard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I became a practicing Orthodox Christian. As I always had to be. I have always had such a side, a love for the church, for priests and for church hymns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I was like a lost sheep. I am a practicing Christian, I want to be a confessor of Orthodoxy. That has brought me peace of mind in recent years. Having God in my life is the best thing that can happen to me. That&#8217;s why I have peace of mind when I&#8217;m attacked. I don&#8217;t mind that jokes are made, that people say that I have a priest\u2019s face\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a complex of Romanians. About Sergio Ramos, would we say he&#8217;s a monk?\u201d Mario Nicolae told GSP Live.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: gsp.ro<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinamo Bucharest football team manager, Mario Nicolae, said in a video that he started to put his Orthodox faith into practice. The announcement was made in response to those interested in why he left his hair long and grew a beard. &#8220;I became a practicing Orthodox Christian. As I always had to be. I have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":313220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22922],"tags":[5682,18992,25413,19010,10387],"class_list":["post-313714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-confession","tag-football","tag-football-manager","tag-football-team","tag-orthodox-christian"],"better_featured_image":{"id":313220,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":848,"height":566,"file":"2021\/03\/Mario-Nicolae-team-manager-Dinamo-Bucuresti.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Mario-Nicolae-team-manager-Dinamo-Bucuresti-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mario-Nicolae-team-manager-Dinamo-Bucuresti-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":313714,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mario-Nicolae-team-manager-Dinamo-Bucuresti.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313714\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=313714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313714\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313220\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=313714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=313714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=313714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}