During his ceremony of greetings to the population, this Wednesday, the mayor of Ris-Orangis, Stéphane Raffalli (PS), formalized the candidacy of his municipality to host the new PSG stadium project, explains the Parisian.
“Here it’s Paris in a bigger way.” The slogan is well-worn. It now remains to materialize. Ris-Orangis will perhaps be the lucky one, namely the town in which the stars of PSG will play all their home matches in a brand new venue in the near future.
The old Ris-Orangis racecourse, the ideal site for PSG?
Le Parisien reports that during his ceremony of greeting the population, the mayor of the town of less than 30,000 inhabitants located in the north of Essonne, Stéphane Raffalli (PS), publicly raised the subject in front of his fellow citizens. The application was submitted on January 9 “following the visit of the club's general director, Victoriano Melero, and the director in charge of the club's real estate sector, Nicolas Ramillon” explains the elected official. The town's former racecourse and the Lu-Danone wasteland were offered to PSG. The first site, located more than 30 kilometers from the Parc des Princes and more than 50 from the Poissy training center, “has the advantage of being immediately available and having an area of more than 100 hectares”, recalled the daily in mid-December.
-“We need it, otherwise we’re dead”
As Nasser al-Khelaïfi recently confided – in disagreement with the Paris town hall over the purchase of the Parc des Princes – the Parisian president wants his club to play in a new stadium. His stadium. “Today, everyone in Europe has stadiums with 100,000, 80,000, 90,000 seats… We need them, otherwise we are dead,” he confided in “Rothen s’igne” on RMC at the end of November.
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