This Sunday evening, Ligue 1 will try to offer itself a little greater exposure than its borders during the Champions Trophy. PSG faces Monaco from 5:30 p.m. A match which will finally take place in Qatar, in stadium 974 which had hosted several matches of the 2022 World Cup.
A meeting that takes place in a particular setting. The Champions Trophy was initially scheduled to be played on August 8 in China before being ultimately canceled. The meeting could not be rescheduled for the end of August at Louis II. So the January date appeared before Qatar was finally named organizer of the meeting, in return for a check for 3 million euros which caused talk, in particular because of the obvious link with PSG.
A Final Four in 2026 in the DRC?
But this Champions Trophy has not finished surprising because for his part, the president of the LFP Vincent Labrune, is not letting go of an idea that he has had in mind for a while. Last May, we already learned that one of Labrune's wishes was to organize the competition as a Final Four like the Spanish Super Cup, with semi-finals and a final. A file shelved until now, except that Le Parisien affirms in today's edition that Labrune has not let go of the file, hoping to organize it from 2026 and possibly on the side of the Democratic Republic of Congo. To be continued…
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To summarize
While PSG and Monaco will challenge each other for the next Champions Trophy, Vincent Labrune has an idea in mind for the future. Indeed, the president of the LFP is not letting go of the idea of a Spanish-style Final Four…
