{"id":28931,"date":"2025-04-22T19:57:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/three-serie-a-games-moved-because-of-popes-funeral\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:57:50","slug":"three-serie-a-games-moved-because-of-popes-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/three-serie-a-games-moved-because-of-popes-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Serie A games moved because of Pope&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Saturday&#8217;s three Serie A matches have been rescheduled to avoid a clash with Pope Francis&#8217; funeral.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 88-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cqj42vd1rxlo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">passed away on Monday<\/a>, with the Vatican later confirming he died of a stroke. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Argentine&#8217;s funeral will take place in Vatican City at 09:00 BST on Saturday, 26 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Como v Genoa and Inter Milan v Roma will now take place on Sunday, with Lazio v Parma rescheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four top-flight matches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx20gmvydzzo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">were called off<\/a> on Monday and rearranged for Wednesday at 17:30 following Pope Francis&#8217; death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Coppa Italia semi-final second leg between Inter Milan and AC Milan is also scheduled to take place that day, with the second semi-final between Bologna and Empoli on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pope Francis was elected to lead the Catholic Church in 2013, replacing Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was a known football fan and had supported Argentine club San Lorenzo since he was a child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ceqrz8ezre8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s three Serie A matches have been rescheduled to avoid a clash with Pope Francis&#8217; funeral. The 88-year-old passed away on Monday, with the Vatican later confirming he died of a stroke. The Argentine&#8217;s funeral will take place in Vatican City at 09:00 BST on Saturday, 26 April. Como v Genoa and Inter Milan v [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28933,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28931\/revisions\/28933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}