Tonight we finally went to a football match to see Paris Saint Germain team play Bayer Leverkusen (who are from Germany). It was actually a fairly important game since it was part of the Champions League tournament, and the win pushed them into the quarter-finals. I just chose it because it was the only date available before we left when we would be in town.
The games are played at Parc Des Princes which is just technically outside of central Paris, but accessible by metro. Or would have been had line #10 not shut down right as we were trying to get there. Thankfully we ended up doing a hodgepodge of routes to make our way to the stadium by taking a taxi to the RER C (as he said the traffic was horrendous around the stadium) and then taking the #10 from Javel the rest of the way (the issue was in the middle of where our apartment is and Javel somewhere).
The game itself was pretty awesome. We had good seats in the lower corner of the stadium, which we bought online from a ticket reseller off the PSG website. And while Bayer (yes, it's the same city that the pharamacutical company Bayer was founded and they sponsored the first teams) scored first, Paris ended up winning 2-1.
Apparently they're quite good this year, and while I had no idea at the time, PSG has one of the top players in the world, Zlatan Ibrahimović who is a Swede who gets $14 million a year to play. He's quite good.
Using the metro to get back home after the game was surprisingly relatively uncrowded. I mean it was crowded standing room only, but it took a while to fill up and wasn't a crazy crush of people like I thought it might be. All in all it was a great night!
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