Over a hundred years ago, one Fr Lorenzo Massa was concerned on seeing young children playing football on the crowded streets of Buenos Aires, endangering their lives in the process. He offered them the church backyard to play football on condition that they would come to church on Sundays. Some years later San Lorenzo football club began to take shape. Initially Fr Lorenzo did not agree to lending his name to the club but as members insisted, he relented. And so the club came to be known as San Lorenzo FC. The Holy Father, who was Cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires, before he ascended to the papacy , is an ardent fan and card holding member of San Lorenzo FC, because of its mission. San Lorenzo is one of the teams in Argentina's premier football league. Typical of leading football clubs, San Lorenzo too has some nick names...one of them being "The Crows". The Holy Father is fondly called 'Papa Crow' by club members.
