Without much of relevance happening in the world of football these days, real football fans can celebrate the start of the best tournament in the world this week: the first qualification round for this season's UEFA Champions League started. This may not appear to the most glamorous round as it includes teams from smaller nations without much social media attention, but it still counts the champions from leagues with ambition to get as far as possible in the tournament. In the first leg we had some less surprising results like the Finnish champions KuPS defeating North Macedonia's Vardar and U. Craiova from Romania defeating Belarussian ML Vitebsk, but also saw the hope of teams like Faroese Kí, Iceland's Vikingur Reykyavik and Malta's Floriana to advance to the next round.
Although we will probably not see any of these sides in the CL, it is exciting that the tournament has started and that it engenders great excitement and fair competition between champions of the greatest football continent in the world.
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