Vatican City actually has a national football/soccer team

[Buzz Rules]

Vatican City actually has a national football/soccer team. Is this a well known fact? I just found it interesting. The Vatican even hosts its own soccer tournament too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City_national_football_team

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City_Championship

 

[chickapin parterre]

someone has to pay for all those easter lillies and the tires on the pope mobile as it travels down the bumpy stone steps...sure isn't going to be the USFL

 

[Buzz Rules]

someone has to pay for all those easter lillies and the tires on the pope mobile as it travels down the bumpy stone steps...sure isn't going to be the USFL

 

[bcla]

Sounds like something that's only meant to be for fun and not really meant to be serious. But it does point out the issue with citizenship being relatively easy for some countries to give. Obviously they don't really have too many native born Vatican citizens, and even being born there doesn't grant citizenship. I don't even think they have citizenship passed on by descent. It's all granted to people who work there in one way or another.

Something tells me that they won't go the way of some countries like Qatar that are recruiting star athletes to represent them.