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This annual gathering of 200 clerics from across Europe speaks to how ‘football, like the gospel, is for everyone…’
Kisvárda, HUNGARY — The small, peaceful town of Kisvárda, in eastern Hungary, has just been the scene of an international sporting event that its inhabitants won’t soon forget.
Nearly 200 Catholic priests from all over Europe competed in national teams in a great soccer tournament, Feb.10-14, attracting large crowds of supporters. The games were more precisely futsal, an indoor variation of soccer played with five players per side.
Fifteen countries were represented at this annual European championship event now in its 17th year, which was won hands down by the Polish team in an atmosphere of fraternity and friendly rivalry.
The participants saw it as a privileged opportunity to consolidate the bonds of solidarity that unite them in these difficult times for priests on the de-Christianized Old Continent and to more easily touch the hearts of young people thirsting for meaning and role models.
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Kisvárda, HUNGARY — The small, peaceful town of Kisvárda, in eastern Hungary, has just been the scene of an international sporting event that its inhabitants won’t soon forget.
Nearly 200 Catholic priests from all over Europe competed in national teams in a great soccer tournament, Feb.10-14, attracting large crowds of supporters. The games were more precisely futsal, an indoor variation of soccer played with five players per side.
Fifteen countries were represented at this annual European championship event now in its 17th year, which was won hands down by the Polish team in an atmosphere of fraternity and friendly rivalry.
The participants saw it as a privileged opportunity to consolidate the bonds of solidarity that unite them in these difficult times for priests on the de-Christianized Old Continent and to more easily touch the hearts of young people thirsting for meaning and role models.
Continued below.
‘Fraternity and Friendly Rivalry’ at the 17th-Annual European Futsal Championship of Catholic Priests
This annual gathering of 200 clerics from across Europe speaks to how ‘football, like the gospel, is for everyone…’
