Tomorrow evening (9 p.m., Canal Plus), PSG and Manchester City face each other in the Champions League. This confrontation is also geopolitical.
The PSG returns to the field tomorrow evening – at
Princes Park – with the seventh day of the league phase of the Champions League against
Manchester City. 25th and first non-qualified, the capital club will have to win against the Mancunians to still believe in a European future. If this match has a lot at stake for the rest of the European season for both teams, it is also a geopolitical confrontation. “ This duel between two clubs which belong to two countries of the Persian Gulf and sometimes renamed “Golfico” is the quintessence of a regional rivalry between the Qatar et
Abu Dhabi” , advance The Team.
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Elimination from the Champions League in 2016 was experienced as a humiliation
A jealousy between the two countries has been transferred to football. “ With the organization of the World Cup au Qatar in 2022 and the acquisition three years apart, between 2008 and 2011, of Manchester
City speak Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyanvice-president and deputy prime minister of
United Arab Emiratesa you
Paris-Saint-Germain par Tamim bin Hamad al-Thaniwho has since become the emir of his country. A rivalry on the theme of who will win the first Champions League ? In this little game, these are the Sky
Blues who achieved it first, in 2023, by beating theInter Milan (1-0). In direct confrontations with the PSG since the takeovers of the two clubs, City also leads, with four successes for a draw and a defeate”, indicates the sports daily. The latter explains that the elimination of PSG in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in 2016 by Manchester City had been experienced as a humiliation. In the past, the Parisian club has not always agreed with the approach of Cityparticularly on the issue of the creation of the Super Ligue in April 2021. A competition to which the French club opposed, unlike its rival, which was one of the twelve founders, launches The Team. « Today, relations have gradually become normalized. Ferran Sorianoexecutive director of Citywas appointed to the board of directors of theEuropean Club Association (ECA), chaired by Nasser al-Khelaïfi. A sign of rapprochement between the two rivals, at least in the instancess”, concludes the sports daily.
