The president of the Banfield Athletic Club, Matías Mariottoheld a private audience at the Vatican on Friday with the Papa Francisco in which the head of the Catholic Church shared with the boss of the Drillwho is barely 26 years old, his vision regarding the role of youth in society.
As reported by the institution in the south of the Buenos Aires suburbs through a statement, Francisco and Mariotto also spoke “affectionately of the present of Argentine football, the passions it mobilizes and the function of social clubs in Argentina”. In addition, the Pope gave his blessing to the club during the conclave and signed a shirt of the club. Drill which will be displayed at the Florencio Sola stadium along with a rosary and a diploma in his honor.
This is not the first meeting between Francisco and Mariotto, who is the son of the former Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Gabriel Mariotto (he held that position between 2011 and 2015, during the second term of Daniel Osvaldo Scioli). In 2013, the now Banfileño president had visited the Pope in the Vatican and had given him a jacket of the model that was then used by the team led by Matías Almeyda and that, in the end, would obtain promotion from the Primera B Nacional to the First Division. .
“The wish of all the Banfileño people is that in 2025 the club achieves its sporting and social objectives based on the work of the incoming Board of Directors and with the accompaniment of His Holiness,” The leadership of the institution stated in the statement through which it reported on the meeting.
Mariotto became the youngest president of all the clubs that are active in the Professional Football League by winning the elections that took place on October 5. In those elections, in which more than 5,600 members participated, the Unidad Primero Banfield list won with 53.6% of the votes over Equipo Grande (46.4%), the ruling party’s list that it led as a candidate to president to Gabriel D’Angelo and who had managed the club for 12 years with Eduardo Spinosa at the helm.
The new Board of Directors took office five days later and on October 27 reported that the leadership that had preceded it had left a debt of 13.5 million dollars and announced that it would carry out an accounting audit to try to clean up the club’s economy.
“The objective of this Board of Directors is to clean up the club’s economy with transparency and rationality, in addition, to form a competitive team that competes for positions of expectation in the tournament and boosts the price of its players,” the new leadership headed by Mariotto stated then.
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