There were lots of people at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday evening during the PSG/Manchester City clash (4-2), including an unexpected but welcome lucky charm.
With fashion week, the presence of Spurs in Paris and more generally the quality of the poster, the PSG/Manchester City match had everything to attract great people on Wednesday evening and the casting did not disappoint. Many personalities filled the basket at the Parc des Princes, from Victor Wembanyama to the new England coach Thomas Tuchel, including the Lebrun brothers, Teddy Riner and even the rapper Travis Scott.
But this memorable match won 4-2 by PSG also took place under the eyes of a certain Christian Perbet, president of the modest Espaly club that PSG recently faced and beat, also with a score of 4-2 . It was a week ago in Clermont-Ferrand in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France.
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi was in Australia last week and got up in the middle of the night to telephone the Altigerian president, who is nicknamed at home the “Qatari of Espaly” for his numerous investments in the fifth-tier Auvergne club. division. During this phone call, the Parisian president had promised Christian Perbet to invite him to a PSG match.
“Al-Khelaïfi told me: ‘You bring good luck, we will have to come back’”
“He kept his word and even better than that by choosing Manchester City. I was four rows behind him and surrounded by Americans I didn’t even know.”laughed the leader of Espaly in comments given to Le Parisien. In addition to being able to chat with Didier Deschamps in the mixed zone after the match, Christian Perbet also spoke briefly with Al-Khelaïfi.
-“We were able to talk for a few minutes with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi. He said to me: You bring good luck, we will have to come back. I replied that I wanted to be PSG’s lucky charm every time they invited me (laughs). It was very simple, very professional. He took the time to talk and pose for the photo. It was really good”confided Christian Perbet, with stars in his eyes.
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