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uefa's revamped Champions League kicked off with a bizarre and glitzy draw event in Monaco but it did little to ease concerns about the new 36 Team league format the event intended to showcase the dawn of a new era featured surreal moments like UEFA President Alexander safarin playing James Bond Cristiano Ronaldo repeatedly pressing a button to allocate fixtures and a cringe worthy promotional video with football legends like zatan Ibrahimovic and John Luigi Buffon the over-the-top ceremony hosted by rashman chowy failed to convince many that the new format would improve the competition raising doubts about the increase in meaningless fixtures and the overall substance of the changes