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While the Champions Trophy match between Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon (5:30 p.m.), the referees were also able to discover the pitch at Stadium 974 in Doha (Qatar) this Saturday.
This is a strange field survey. On the eve of the Champions Trophy between Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco, and before the players from the Ligue 1 teams took part in their last warm-up before the clash, it was the referees who first familiar with the place.
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This Saturday afternoon, Willy Delajod and his assistants – Erwan Finjean (assistant), Philippe Jeanne (assistant), Abdelatif Kherradji (4th referee), Hamid Guénaoui and Cédric Dos Santos (video) – then improvised a game of pétanque on the lawn of Stadium 974 in Doha (Qatar) using footballs and plots. This is shown in a video published by the media Instant Foot, present on site, on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
We rarely talk about referee training before big matches…
But today, we came to watch the training of Willy Delajod and his assistants in Doha, on the eve of the Champions Trophy between PSG and AS Monaco!
Well, for now, it’s… pic.twitter.com/nXom5uAgx4
— Instant Foot u26bdufe0f (@lnstantFoot) https://twitter.com/lnstantFoot/status/1875537888554746198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
A little later, it was the Parisians who in turn set foot on the lawn of the “container stadium” following the press conference by Luis Enrique and Marquinhos. On December 18, PSG managed to win on Louis II's pitch against Monaco (2-4) thanks in particular to a double from Ousmane Dembélé.
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