{"id":326490,"date":"2014-06-13T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/world-cup-2014-the-joy-of-good-sportsmanship\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:57:24","slug":"world-cup-2014-the-joy-of-good-sportsmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/world-cup-2014-the-joy-of-good-sportsmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2014: The joy of good sportsmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If it is true that at the end of this World Cup, only one team will raise the Winner\u2019s Cup, we must learn the lessons that sport teaches us: then we will all be winners strengthening the ties that bind us together,&#8221; Pope Francis said in his <a href=\"http:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/it\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2014\/06\/12\/0431\/00983.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video message<\/a> on the occasion of the World Cup 2014.  A culture of defeat for a new culture of victory, was also the provocative title of a gathering of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportmeet.org\/chi-siamo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sportmeet<\/a>, a worldwide network of sportspeople and sports operators, to whom Chiara Lubich addressed these words:  <b>\u00a0<\/b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-107063 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" alt=\"ChiaraLubich_Sport\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ChiaraLubich_Sport.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"289\" \/>\u201cIn the Christian mentality,<strong> the one who loses knows the value of suffering and defeat because the Son of God has given them value.<\/strong> This person can still experience the deeper joy that comes from <b>having given;<\/b> given of him or herself during training, or in the relationships established in building up the team, in doing his or her very best in front of the crowds.  True inner joy is born only from self-giving, from love. It is a more limpid, pure joy for those who win (if they have striven and won out of love) and for those who lose (if they too have striven and lost out of love).  <strong>Then sport retains its authentic seal<\/strong> and will be elevated to its true social status. It can then contribute to regenerating humanity in our over-stressed world, to being an element that brings people together, one of brotherhood and peace among peoples and nations.  <strong>In ancient Greece<\/strong>, during the Olympics, a moratorium was declared on all wars. Let\u2019s not lag behind in comparison to then!\u201d  <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/\">Chiara Lubich<\/a>, 10 September 2005, message to the Third International <\/i><i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportmeet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sportmeet<\/a> <\/i>Congress<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While disputes flare up over the costs of the event, it is hoped &#8211; in the words of Pope Francis \u2013 that this World Cup takes place in peace. We join in this wish recalling Chiara Lubich\u2019s message to a group of sportspeople gathered together to celebrate sport and joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}