Imagine if the huns draw this team in europe!!!

[wee jock poo-pong mcplop]

http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/The_Vatican_b...c_10032007.html

 

Milan- The players of Italian third division side Ancona

will most likely think twice before misbehaving on the pitch after

the club was bought by the Vatican.

La Stampa reported Wednesday that the Centro Sportivo Italiano

(CSI) has bought 80 per cent of the club through a group of Milanese

Catholic entrepreneurs, leaving 20 per cent to the former president

Sergio Schiavoni.

 

CSI, which is run by the Vatican's Conference of Bishops, has

drafted an ethics code both for players and fans and will invest the

profits in projects to help developing countries and Catholic

youth in Italy.

 

"It is a way to moralize football, to bring some ethics to a

sector that is going through a deep crisis of values," said Ancona

archbishop Edoardo Menichelli, who recently played a benefit game

against an Italian national team of singers.

 

CSI president Edio Costantini said the centre wants "to invest in

the true meaning of sport. We want football to be again a means of

education and not tied to strictly monetary values.

 

"We will show that, for boys, football is not just an illusion or

a bad example."

 

Ancona were in the Serie A as recently as four years ago but were

involved in the scandals that shook Italian football in the summer of

2006.

 

After six games, they lead Group B of the Serie C1 alongside

Salernitana.

[jeffers]

http://rawstory.com/news/dpa/The_Vatican_b...c_10032007.html

 

Milan- The players of Italian third division side Ancona

will most likely think twice before misbehaving on the pitch after

the club was bought by the Vatican.

La Stampa reported Wednesday that the Centro Sportivo Italiano

(CSI) has bought 80 per cent of the club through a group of Milanese

Catholic entrepreneurs, leaving 20 per cent to the former president

Sergio Schiavoni.

 

CSI, which is run by the Vatican's Conference of Bishops, has

drafted an ethics code both for players and fans and will invest the

profits in projects to help developing countries and Catholic

youth in Italy.

 

"It is a way to moralize football, to bring some ethics to a

sector that is going through a deep crisis of values," said Ancona

archbishop Edoardo Menichelli, who recently played a benefit game

against an Italian national team of singers.

 

CSI president Edio Costantini said the centre wants "to invest in

the true meaning of sport. We want football to be again a means of

education and not tied to strictly monetary values.

 

"We will show that, for boys, football is not just an illusion or

a bad example."

 

Ancona were in the Serie A as recently as four years ago but were

involved in the scandals that shook Italian football in the summer of

2006.

 

After six games, they lead Group B of the Serie C1 alongside

Salernitana.

 

 

That would be sweet, Double Standards tho!!

[KennyS]

Bizarre. Was in Ancona on the way to the Scotland game in Bari, what a dump. Made Easterhouse look like a successful urban regeneration project.