The blue of the seats at stadium 974 resembles that of the stands at the Parc des Princes and the Paris Saint-Germain players have the opportunity to see this. This Sunday, the Champions Trophy is being played in Qatar, in the capital of Doha, but the poster between Monaco and PSG has obviously not aroused wild expectations within the country which organized the 2022 World Cup.
Of the 44,000 seats in this stadium built from containers, many seats have not found buyers. The atmosphere is not necessarily there either, with the exception of the small kop of Parisian supporters, the only ones to give voice over time in Doha. It must be said that in Qatar, Sunday is not synonymous with rest, whether for workers or schoolchildren. The meeting will not excite the Emir of Qatar either. Tamim ben Hamad Al-Thani was in any case not seated in his assigned seat at the kick-off of the Champions Trophy.
Certainly, PSG is owned by the sovereign wealth fund Qatar Sports Investments, but the club’s new, less flashy sports policy has necessarily diluted the international influence of the team from the French capital. In two summers, Lionel Messi, winner of the World Cup in Qatar with Argentina, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé left the Parisian ship. Ousmane Dembélé and Achraf Hakimi were not enough to fill stadium 974.
