Finally a new rival from Paris – Diepresse.com
Jürgen Klopp and the LVMH billionaires want to create what has always failed: In addition to Paris Saint-Germain, establishing a second top club in the metropolis.
Paris has always been the exception in the football world. Each European metropolis has at least two top clubs that celebrate their historically grown rivalry, in the league in the front and are usually also successful in the European Cup. Whether Madrid, Milan, Rome, also Berlin, Barcelona, Vienna, Athens, of course London. Only Paris, with over twelve million people the largest metropolitan region of the EUhas only been represented with an association in the first French league for 35 years. At that time Racing Paris rose and Paris Saint-Germain is left.
For many, this is also the reason for PSG’s international success. In any case, the city never became a football heavyweight in Europe – although Paris with its Banlieus is probably the largest talent pool in the football world. At the 2022 World Cup, the French news agency AFP calculated that 29 players from Paris were in the World Cup cadres, spread over the national teams of France, Portugal, Cameroon, Tunisia, Senegal and Morocco.
Actually enough footballing weight for a European team’s European Cup success-and in fact the chances of PSG before the Champions League semi-final against Arsenal (Tuesday 9 p.m., Live Sky, Servus TV) are more high. But also enough potential for a second top club in the city.
