Draw Champions League. Juventus, Napoli and Roma are looking forward to it

The big day for European top football has come. At Montecarlo, at the charming location of the Grimaldi Forum at 18 00: 2017 will host the highly anticipated draw of the Champions League 2018-XNUMX series.
The three greats of our league, Juventus, Rome and Napoli will finally know who will be their first opponents in the toughest journey that will bring only one club to raise the famous cup with ears under the Kiev sky. About the venue chosen for the final, one of the ceremonies of the event will be the current technical commissioner of Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko, a worthy ambassador of Ukrainian football to the world and old knowledge of our A series.
It will be an event in the event for Rome, which will not only return to participate in the prestigious competition group stage after a brief absence, will meet its opponents and see its flag, Francesco Totti awarded for his career by UEFA President With the "President's Award" as in the past it was only for two Italian players, Milanese Rivera and Maldini.
Thirty-four teams then divided into four 8 groups, are expected to participate in the 2017 / 2018 Champions League. The four teams will be drawn each by a sort of "basin", called the band.
The First Pot is made up of the winning clubs of the national championships in the top seven federations of the UEFA ranking (2016/2017) and the current European champions. The only exception in this edition is Shakhtar Donetsk, new champion of the eighth European federation (Ukraine) who takes the place vacated by Real Madrid winner of both the last Champions League and the Spanish championship. This bracket includes: Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Benfica, Chelsea, Munich, Spartak Moscow, Shakhtar Donetsk.
The next bands are calculated with the club UEFA ranking at the end of the 2016 / 2017 season. Reading the names of clubs associated with the second band can not, sportily speaking, do not put the "terror" on all our big ones. From this band, calling the second one ripping off a smile, they include: Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid, Paris Saint Germain, Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla, Manchester City, Porto and Manchester United.
The third bracket includes Napoli which is not included in the upper bracket for only one place and Rome which, thanks to the recent eliminations in the preliminary rounds of Ajax and Dinamo Kiev, is promoted from the fourth to the third bracket and avoids finishing in a group three greats of European football. This band includes: Naples, Tottenham, Basel, Olympiacos, Anderlecht, Rome, Besiktas, Liverpool. The clubs with the lowest but equally competitive UEFA rankings close in the fourth pot: Celtic Glasgow, Feyenoord, Red Bull Leipzig, Maribor, CSKA Moscow, Qarabag, Sporting Club de Portugal, Apoel Nicosia.

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Draw Champions League. Juventus, Napoli and Roma are looking forward to it