Names & Faces: Andre Agassi, Pope Francis

The retired tennis player who won eight Grand Slam titles will coach Novak Djokovic at the French Open, which starts next Sunday, Djokovic said Sunday at the Italian Open.

Djokovic, the second-ranked player who has won 12 Grand Slam titles, split with longtime coach Marian Vajda at the start of the month.

The pontiff has told children at an Italian sports center he didn’t play soccer very well as a youth and was stuck with the nickname “stiff leg.”

An 11-year-old boy asked Francis during a parish visit in the Rome suburb of Acilia on Sunday afternoon if he had played soccer as a child.

The pope said: “When I was your age, I played soccer, but I wasn’t ‘bravo’ at playing soccer, and where I come from, they call you ‘pata dura’ — ‘stiff leg.’ ”