The Pope, as a football nut who once played against Alfredo di Stefano in his boyhood, was clearly delighted.
But then at the end of their meeting, Diego ups the ante with the greatest celebration since his drug-and-adrenaline-fuelled celebration into the cameras at USA '94.
Magical stuff.
Was it just delight at meeting his only serious rival for the title of Greatest Living Argentine?
Or had the man known as the Bishop of Rome, Supreme Pontiff and Successor of the Prince of Apostles just tipped the wink to his newest buddy that the Big Man Upstairs is ready to forgive all those pecadilloes and trim Diego's time in purgatory?

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