{"id":322471,"date":"2021-06-18T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=322471"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:52:50","slug":"football-is-an-orthodox-game-dozens-of-romanian-parishes-establish-football-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/football-is-an-orthodox-game-dozens-of-romanian-parishes-establish-football-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFootball is an Orthodox game\u201d. Dozens of Romanian parishes establish football teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many times, priests keep young people close to the church through various extra ecclesiastical activities. Football is one of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dozens of parishes, especially in rural areas, have set up football teams, often coached even by the parish priest, reports Adev\u0103rul<\/a>. This is also the case of the football team of Vorona Centru Parish from Boto\u0219ani County, founded two years ago by Fr. Andrei Anu\u0219c\u0103.<\/p>\n

The team participated in the Football Championship of the Archdiocese of Iasi, which concluded recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost 20 young people gather every Sunday at the church to pray and then to play football. The church championship is quite strong,\u201d father Anu\u015fc\u0103 explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst the teams from the parish play, then at the next stage they play at the archdiocesan level, in the county and, finally, the best teams fight for the title of Archdiocese.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, Vorona Centru Parish Football Team was visited by Or\u0103\u0219eni Schit Parish Team. \u201cA few matches were played, both between our young people from Vorona and with the guests from Schit,\u201d Fr. Andrei Anu\u0219c\u0103 said.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Vorona Centru Parish \/ Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spectators included the Dean of Boto\u0219ani, Fr. Petru Fercal, but also Archimandrite Nicodim Petre, counsellor at the Mission, Statistics and Pastoral Forecast Sector of the Archdiocese of Iasi.<\/p>\n

\u201cFootball is an Orthodox game<\/p>\n

\u201cFootball is a team sport; we say it is an Orthodox game,\u201d Archim. Nicodim noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cFootball means communion; it means teamwork. In football, we learn to give up; we give passes so the team may win. I played football in high school, and now, when I saw them on the field, I feel like joining in too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a9Vorona Centru Parish \/ Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photography courtesy of Vorona Centru Parish \/ Facebook<\/p>\n

Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many times, priests keep young people close to the church through various extra ecclesiastical activities. Football is one of them. Dozens of parishes, especially in rural areas, have set up football teams, often coached even by the parish priest, reports Adev\u0103rul. This is also the case of the football team of Vorona Centru Parish from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18992,19010,53,24174,18893],"class_list":["post-322471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-football","tag-football-team","tag-romanian-orthodox-church","tag-sports-news","tag-youth-ministry"],"better_featured_image":{"id":322467,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1137,"height":639,"file":"2021\/06\/200955626_829852897635107_481887443294786722_n.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"200955626_829852897635107_481887443294786722_n-890x500.jpg","width":890,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/200955626_829852897635107_481887443294786722_n-890x500.jpg"},"large":{"file":"200955626_829852897635107_481887443294786722_n-1024x575.jpg","width":1024,"height":575,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/200955626_829852897635107_481887443294786722_n-1024x575.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"200955626_829852897635107_481887443294786722_n-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/200955626_829852897635107_481887443294786722_n-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1624015316","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":322471,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/200955626_829852897635107_481887443294786722_n.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322471\/"}],"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=322471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322471\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322467\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=322471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=322471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=322471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}