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Which team does Pope Leo ? Cubs or White Sox? The mystery is solved

The new pontiff has his connection with several sports

Which team does Pope Leo ? Cubs or White Sox? The mystery is solved

The world news this Thursday is the appointment of the new Pope following the death of Francis I, who is now succeeded by Leo XIV.

But this appointment of a more social and political nature also has its ties to the world of sports, as is the case with MLB.

Pope Leo XIV's first words: in several languages, fond remembrance of Pope Francis...

Robert Prevost's team in MLB

Robert Prevost, the name of the new pope, is a baseball fan born in Chicago and there seems to be some dispute as to which team he s in the city: the Cubs or the White Sox.

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The first reports indicate that the Pontiff is a fan of the Chicago Cubs, despite growing up on the south side of the city, where the White Sox play

But then news began to circulate in which the Pope's brother, John Prevost, denied this information and said that he ed the Chicago White Sox.

"He never was a Cubs fan. I don't know where that came from. He was always a Sox fan," he told WGN, a Chicago television station, adding that their mother was a Cubs fan, while their father ed the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Beyond the team that Pope Leo XIV s, the fact is that he is the first Pope to be born in the United States and with a strong connection in Peru, where he spent several decades in Chiclayo.

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