Vatican City national football team

The Vatican City national football team (Italian: Selezione di calcio della Città del Vaticano) is the football team that represents Vatican City. They are one of only nine fully recognized sovereign states whose national team is not a FIFA member. The others are the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu and the United Kingdom. In May 2014, Domenico Ruggerio, president of the FA, stated that “I prefer to be amateur...To join FIFA, at that level, will be like a business” after stating "The important message of friendship and love is demonstrated by the sport — the real sport, not the business that is in football these days...It is not just important to win a match; it is how you carry yourself." Therefore that, he added, meant that "the ethos of the Vatican’s soccer team was, at odds with FIFA membership."