VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis met Friday with the head of FIFA and members of the Italian and Argentine national rugby teams.
Francis told the rugby players in town for a match on Saturday that theirs was a "tough" sport but one without violence, where individual and team greatness complement one another. Francis also met Friday with FIFA chief Joseph Blatter.
"We spoke the same language and it was language of football," Blatter said. "It was really a meeting between two sportsmen and two football fans."
Blatter said he responded to the pope's request for FIFA to help the favelas, or slums, of Rio de Janeiro during the 2014 World Cup, with a promise to "do what we can."
"We cannot do everything," Blatter said.