LA POLVERERA / ENGLISH

Roma – Latin America comes to life around a soccer field made out of dirt and dust. La polverera is never empty. One after the other the matches never stop. This professional look a like teams have less money and more fun and the women’s championship is the centre of attention and he best choice for the fans. La polverera is la Bombonera in Buenos Aires or the Parque de la Carolina back in Quito, Ecuador.

Be it a sunny or rainy day, a cold or a hot journey, the Colle Oppio Park has its own life. The Latin American atmosphere, the smells and the music, arrive with great vitality to the very centre of Rome, with the Coliseum on the background. Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Colombian players are building a new Rome made out of barbeques, salsa and cumbia, and where diverse cultures meet and melt.

It is not Cali, nor is Lima, it is simply Colle Oppio, the capital of South America in Rome.