This week Stephen, James and Christian (student from Norway) went to the kickoff game for the Champions league. What is the Champions league? The Champions league is the most important European football tournament that lasts from September to May. To give you an idea of how popular this is, the final match for the last tournament attracted more viewers than any other single annual sporting event (including the Super Bowl). The tournament is made up of the 32 most competitive European teams from all over the region with the best teams coming from England and Spain (probably). These teams are split up into 8 groups of 4 teams each who play each other twice each, once at "home" in their own country and once "away". Each group advances two of the four teams. This year the Copenhagen Lions have made the tournament and it just so happened that they played on the opening night. Anyways to cut a long story short, Copenhagen won by scoring the only goal of the game with a head shot at the 87th minute of the game (a football game lasts 90 minutes so this was 3 minutes before the game ended). Needless to say, it was a really exciting match. Here are some pictures from the event.
The football stadium
The Copenhagen Lions logo. Good shot of the inside of the stadium.
The incredibly rowdy section.
The goal that Copenhagen was shooting on in the second half.
Some of the action
We got great views of the corner kicks!
It rained on and off.
Doesn't the rain look cool?
This picture shows where we were in relation to the stadium
VICTORY!
It was really cool. At the end of the game, the Copenhagen players walked around the entire stadium and applauded the fans! This is not something that I'm used to seeing at sporting events. I thought it showed humility and gratitude that is not normal in a lot of professional sports.
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