A.S. Roma draws with Barcelona and gives a city hope

A packed Olympic Stadium crowd of 57,836 watched Roma tie defending champions Barcelona as the Champions League kicked off for Roma Wednesday night.

This is Roma’s season. In my refrigerator, chilling well, is a large bottle of Prosecco.

The Champions League, however, is what draws attention from the entire world. And on Wednesday night, the world’s soccer fans bored their collective eye on Rome’s Olympic Stadium. It was the opening game of the Champions League group stage and in town was the greatest team in the world, the defending champion, boasting the best player in the world.

F.C. Barcelona.
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