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Jenna Dewan, left, and Julianna Hough pose together at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Singer Ciara arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Sofia Boutella arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Singer Normani arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Zooey Deschanel arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Lisa Rinna poses at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Natasha Bedingfield arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Jussie Smollett arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Jussie Smollett arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Taraji P. Henson, left, and Jussie Smollett pose together at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Taraji P. Henson, left, gets a kiss from designer Jonathan Simkhai at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Ruth Negga arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Designer Bob Mackie arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Host Keke Palmer arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Host Keke Palmer arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Fergie arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Fergie blows a kiss to photographers at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Fergie arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Mandy Moore arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Mandy Moore arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Tiffany Haddish arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Tiffany Haddish arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Colman Domingo arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Colman Domingo poses at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Kate Hudson arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Kate Hudson arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Gabrielle Union arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Gabrielle Union strikes a pose at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Kerry Washington arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Kerry Washington arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Laverne Cox arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Laverne Cox strikes a pose at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor/model Julia Fox arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor/model Julia Fox arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Jenna Dewan, left, and Julianna Hough pose together at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Singer Ciara arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Sofia Boutella arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Singer Normani arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Zooey Deschanel arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Lisa Rinna poses at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Natasha Bedingfield arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Jussie Smollett arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Jussie Smollett arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Taraji P. Henson, left, and Jussie Smollett pose together at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Taraji P. Henson, left, gets a kiss from designer Jonathan Simkhai at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Ruth Negga arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Designer Bob Mackie arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Host Keke Palmer arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Host Keke Palmer arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Fergie arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Fergie blows a kiss to photographers at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Fergie arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Mandy Moore arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Mandy Moore arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Tiffany Haddish arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Tiffany Haddish arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Colman Domingo arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Colman Domingo poses at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Kate Hudson arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Kate Hudson arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Gabrielle Union arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Gabrielle Union strikes a pose at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Kerry Washington arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Kerry Washington arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Laverne Cox arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor Laverne Cox strikes a pose at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor/model Julia Fox arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Actor/model Julia Fox arrives at the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
ROME (AP) — Four top-flight soccer matches in Italy were postponed after the death of Pope Francis on Monday and the Buenos Aires club that the Argentine pontiff supported throughout his life mourned its most famous fan.
The wider soccer and sports world also paid homage after Francis passed away at 88.
All sports events scheduled for Easter Monday in Italy were postponed, including including four Serie A games: Torino-Udinese; Cagliari-Fiorentina; Genoa-Lazio; and Parma-Juventus.
A minute of silence will be observed before all sports events later in the week, the Italian Olympic Committee added.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said he was “deeply saddened” over the pope’s death.
“I was privileged enough to spend some time with him on a couple of occasions, and he always shared his enthusiasm for football and stressed the important role our sport plays in society,” Infantino said on Instagram. “All the prayers of the whole football world are with him.”
Francis’ passion for soccer became known almost immediately after he was elected pope in 2013 when the Argentine club San Lorenzo tweeted a photo of him holding up the team’s crest. He was even a card-carrying member of the club, with San Lorenzo ID No. 88,235.
San Lorenzo is nicknamed “the Saints.”
“He was always one of us,” San Lorenzo said in an Instagram tribute, remembering how Francis watched its 1946 championship team as a young boy.
San Lorenzo performed well after Francis was elected as the 266th pope in March 2013. The team won a national title in 2013 and then claimed the South American Copa Libertadores for the first time a year later. Club officials traveled twice to the Vatican carrying trophies to thank Francis for his support.
A planned new San Lorenzo stadium is to be named for Francis.
In Italy, there were also suggestions that Francis supported Juventus since his family came from the Piedmont region where the Turin club is based. Francis’ father, Mario Bergoglio, was a basketball player.
Francis met his fellow Argentine Diego Maradona twice as pope. There was a special audience in connection with a charity soccer match in 2014 when Maradona presented the pontiff with a soccer jersey, emblazoned with the name “Francisco” — Spanish for Francis — and Maradona’s No. 10.
“I think we all now realize he’s a (star),” Maradona said after another meeting in 2015. “I’m Francis’ top fan.”
When Maradona died in 2020, Francis remembered the soccer great in his prayers.
Record 15-time European soccer champion Real Madrid also mourned Francis in a message on Instagram:
“Real Madrid would like to express its condolences to the entire Catholic community on the loss of a historic and universal figure,” Real Madrid said in a statement. “During his pontificate, characterised by the scale of his immense legacy, Pope Francis has represented an enormous spirit of solidarity and support for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people.”
During a meeting with the Argentina and Italy national teams shortly after he was elected, Francis noted the influence of athletes, especially on youth, and told the players to remember that, “for better or worse” they are role models. “Dear players, you are very popular. People follow you, and not just on the field but also off it,” he said. “That’s a social responsibility.”
Francis often hailed sports as a way to promote solidarity and inclusion, especially for young people.
During a global conference on faith and sport in 2016, Francis implored leaders to do a better job of keeping corruption off the playing field and said sports must be protected from manipulations and commercial abuse.
“Francis was a special pope, able to illuminate in his time like only the greatest can,” Gianluigi Buffon, the former captain of Italy’s national soccer team who met the pope on multiple occasions, said on Instagram. “He showed us the way with great courage and moved our souls. I will carry his example forever in my heart.”
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FILE - Pope Francis blesses faithfuls as he arrives to celebrate the Mass of Assumption of Mary at Daejeon World Cup stadium in Daejeon, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)
FILE - Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)
FILE - Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, left, greets Pope Francis in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)