Rome — On paper, the itinerary read something vague: “lunch and games with refugees.”
When the Michigan football team arrived in Rome on Sunday, the coaches and players spent several hours at the Borghese Gardens before heading to their hotel. It is the third largest park in Rome, located east of the Vatican, and they visited the museum and interacted with refugees from Syria, Nigeria and Gambia, among other countries, who are now living in Rome.
The Wolverines will be in Rome until Sunday as part of an educational trip to, as coach Jim Harbaugh says, put the “college back into college football.