Argentine football club in heaven as fan becomes pope球迷變教宗，阿根廷足球隊樂不可支

Argentine football club in heaven as fan becomes pope
球迷變教宗，阿根廷足球隊樂不可支
2013-04-14◎俞智敏

Fans of San Lorenzo, one of Argentina’s most popular football clubs, are in heaven： one of their own just became pope, a feather in the cap for a team founded by a priest.
阿根廷最受歡迎的足球隊、聖羅倫佐隊的球迷現在全都樂翻了天，因為他們當中的一人剛剛獲選為教宗，這也是這支由天主教士所創立的球隊的另一項傲人成就。

"The new pope, from San Lorenzo, is more important even than Diego Maradona or （tango singer） Carlos Gardel," enthused Marcelo Ladelfa, invoking the most Argentinian of superlatives.
「來自聖羅倫佐的新教宗要比馬拉度納或（探戈歌手）葛戴爾更重要，」馬賽羅．拉戴法興奮地說，他引用的全是阿根廷最具代表性的最高級讚美詞。

The 45-year-old worker admitted he was bowled over by the cardinal Jorge Bergoglio’s election as leader of the 1.2-billion-strong Catholic Church.
這名45歲的工人坦承，他聽到伯格里奧主教獲選為領導全球1.2億天主教徒的教宗時大吃一驚。

A longtime San Lorenzo fan who lived near the club, Bergoglio is now Pope Francis and, said Ladelfa, "the most illustrious person in the history of Argentina."
身為家就住在聖羅倫佐球場附近的多年球迷，伯格里奧現已成為教宗方濟，拉戴法說，「他是阿根廷歷史上最傑出的人。」

The pope is member number 88.235N of the San Lorenzo club, a first division team also known as the Cyclones or the Saints of Boedo.
教宗的聖羅倫佐足球俱樂部會員號碼是88.235N，這支屬於阿國甲級聯賽的足球隊又被稱為「旋風」或「伯多的聖人」。

He was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Boedo, where the club was historically headquartered and grew up in the nearby Flores neighborhood, where it later moved.
教宗出生於布宜諾斯艾利斯的伯多區，聖羅倫佐隊的總部過去一直設在這裡，他隨後在鄰近的佛羅雷斯區長大，而聖羅倫佐隊後來也把主場球場遷至此區。

The club’s religious links go way back. It was founded in 1908 by a parish priest, Lorenzo Massa, with the aim of getting young boys off the streets and educating them through sports. To this day, San Lorenzo fans are known as "Crows," after the black cassock of the club’s founding priest. （AFP）
這支球隊與宗教的關係深遠。球隊是於1908年由教區教士羅倫佐．馬薩所創立，目的是要讓年輕男孩遠離街頭，透過運動來教育他們。直到今天，聖羅倫佐隊的球迷還是被稱為「烏鴉」，指的是球隊創始教士們所身穿的黑色長衣。 （法新社）

新聞辭典

a feather in the cap：片語，指值得高興的成就，如A new television series will be another feather in his cap.（推出新的電視影集將會是他另一項值得自豪的成就。）

superlative：名詞，指最高級的字詞，引申為指誇張的、最高級的讚美，如The critics ran out of superlatives to describe him.（評論家已經想不出更多讚美的詞句來形容他。）

bowl over：動詞片語，指使某人大吃一驚或留下深刻印象，如She bowled over the judges with her excellent performance.（她的傑出表現讓評審大感佩服。）