All you really need to know about sports in Italy can be summed up in one word- Soccer. Or, as the Italians call it- calcio. Sure, there are other sports in Italy, but soccer is by far the most popular. And soccer is at a fever pitch high in the city of Rome, where they have 2 teams in the top Italain League- Serie A. Serie A consists of 20 Italian teams that play weekly every Sunday afternoon from September- May. The two Roman teams are SS Lazio and AS Roma. My blog entries will be primarily on AS Roma, as they are the more popular and successful of the two city teams. Here is the club's website: http://www.asroma.it/. In Italian soccer there are 3 yearly competitions, the 38 game regular season where a league champion is declared. There is also a year-long tournament called the Italian Cup where every Italian soccer club, no matter which division they are in participate. The third copmetion is the European competition where only the top 6 Italian clubs have a chance to compete. The two European competitions are the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, with the Champions League the more prestigious of the two. Hopefully, this gives you a brief understanding of Italian soccer.
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