If you thought that fantastic football was with regard to civilization, think again. Italy, the eternally cavity land of the parties of saints, pasta and Berlusconi (RIP), has prepared a new national obsession: the Fantasy.
It’s fantastic football – but to choose the next pope.
In a country where political coalitions are more ephemeral than a tiktok trend, it is normal that citizens have transformed the sacred act of electing the bishop of Rome into a game of points and papal penalties.
Although it may seem a fanciful satire that has declassified, our imagination Staid could never invent something like that.
No, the game is real, as is the application where you play there. Users can create their own avatars, be “reconstituted” (whatever that means) and join a league. Not very difficult if THE The League, the Italian political party, is one of the options.
Once you are signed and freshly plunged into holy water, you can form a team of 11 papabiles (Lit. “Pope-Auitables”, the Cardinal contenders deemed the most likely to put the White Souto-Caisse). You can earn points based on media mentions, the Vatican intrigue, and if your team captain really emerges on the balcony to wave like a lottery winner.
The rules involve a rating matrix, therefore Byzantine it could have been written during the council of Trent. Choose a liberal? Risk. A traditionalist with a presence of podcast as a captain? It is 10 points more eternal glory.
However, there is no point granted for humility – historically the only required line of real popes. But who needs humility when your “Habemus Squad” team has just skipped the ranking because Cardinal Tiziocaiosempronio has published a spicy declaration on climate change?
What started as a joke is now to flirt dangerously with the country’s national sport. Naples bookmakers will begin to offer dimensions. Teenagers could soon exchange lists of “5 best Jesuits” like Pokémon cards. Until now, the application is without advertising, although it is assumed that the temptation to engage in sponsorships “injured by barilla” increases faster than incense smoke to St. Peter’s.
God can evolve in a mysterious way – but in FantasyThe points speak.
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