On Wednesday, a huge crowd at Ohio Stadium showed how much Columbus cares about soccer.
Columbus is a college football town, it's an undeniable fact. This fact is often used, by people inclined to doing so, to argue that soccer "will never make it" here. On Wednesday night, however, Columbus proved that is not necessarily the case. Real Madrid CF and Paris Saint Germain played in front of an announced crowd of 86,641 at Ohio Stadium, the home of the football Buckeyes, and despite missing some key names (such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Luka Modric) still delivered an exciting night of soccer.