Pope Francis holds weekly audience at the Vatican, November 25, 2020. Vatican Media/?Handout via REUTERS
VATICAN CITY, ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis remembers soccer legend and fellow Argentine Diego Maradona with affection and is keeping him in his prayers, the Vatican said on Wednesday, and official Holy See media called him "soccer's poet".
Maradona, who died on Wednesday at his home in Argentina following a heart attack, met the pope several times at the Vatican after Francis was elected in 2013 as Latin America's first pope.
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