Paris is well worth a jubilation – Liberation

Of the Images of jubilation throughout France. An unsuspected joy that emerges from the guts. Pride in front of art and the way in which Parisians won this Champions League. Thirty-two years after OM, PSG puts a French team on the club map which counts in Europe by winning the most prestigious competitions.

We would almost come to forget that Paris Saint-Germain, with its colossal means, is an extraordinary club compared to the rest of the league 1. property of the businessman and minister Qatari Nasser al-Khelaïfi, PSG lives in his own universe, without being subjected to the same financial difficulties as most hexagonal clubs, assigned, among others, by the MICMAC around the TV rights. Never mind, spectators were numerous in front of their posts, in barsin fanzones, and throughout France, far beyond the peripheral enclosure, in a festive atmosphere, even if regrettable overflows took place.

The proof of a collective impulse always alive for the Grandes-Messes Sports, a few months after the wave of enthusiasm for the Olympic Games, which had given pep to a France affected by a failed dissolution. And nothing better to make society when the figure of a young hero emerges. Like Kylian Mbappé in 2018, it is today a young person named Désiré who arouses the passion of an entire people. Before this final, a question waved the microcosm of sports journalists, That of the « nationality » of PSGlocated in Paris but powerful instrument of Soft Power Qatari. However, with his nuggets of tricolor players like Désiré Doué, Ousmane Dembélé or Bradley Barcola, and his success carried by his sense of collective game, this PSG has been loved by the French, beyond the capital.