Alfredo Di Stefano may have had a kick-about with Argentine compatriot Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who was elected Pope Francis last week, when they were growing up around the same time in Buenos Aires, the Real Madrid great has said.
Di Stefano, who is just over 10 years older than the 76-year-old Bergoglio, wrote in his regular column in Spanish sports daily Marca that the pair had gone to the same school and lived close to each other in the Argentine capital.
"You'll have to ask him because at that time I was the famous one, from when I was very small, as I belonged to the River Plate youth academy, everyone knew me."
Di Stefano is widely considered one of the greatest players of all time and helped to turn Real Madrid, the La Liga club he joined in 1953, into one of the world's leading sides.
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