The adventure began on May 19, 2008.
An Italian friend (and commited fan of Juventus before he even came into the world) made me a proposal: “We will have a nice little football stadium soon. You must absolutely see that!”
Football? The madness that causes people to desert several cities around the world every 4 years? Raised in a culture of hockey, baseball and American football, I was light years away from this type of football. An adopted Montrealer, I did not even know there was such a team in this city! And so soccer, I looked rather distractedly at one or two games on TV without it ever really interesting me.