As always, the Cup will have to be brought home and not just for the music industry. PSG, the craziest club in France, is playing the most important match in its history this Sunday evening, after 50 years of an already tumultuous and completely stunning existence. Facing Bayern Munich, a legendary team on the European scene, Paris can grab a share of the glory by winning the most difficult trophy for clubs to conquer on the planet.
Paris dreams of it again concretely since 2011 and its takeover by Qatar. He doesn't want to have climbed the peaks just to look at the view and take a date. If Paris has just scaled Europe, it is hoping to burn itself under the stars. But only one is enough for his happiness, the one that would adorn his tunic in the event of victory.
At a time of impatience, of held breath and of the torments of the longest day, one must cling to the signs. This final comes exactly 50 years after the first official match in PSG history - it was against Poitiers! - and the idea is to remember August 23, 2020 still in 50 years. It can become a July 12 (1998, first world title for the Blues), a July 15 (2018, second world title for the Blues) or a May 26 (1993, the only victory for a French club so far, that of the 'OM, in C1). If the national team multiplies the conquests, there is really room in the calendar to establish new markers.
A final apotheosis for Thiago Silva?
Another crossroads of fate and dates, Thiago Silva, the captain rid of his tinsel of past anguish, plays his last match against the Germans in Paris, after eight years of good and loyal service, the major piece of his career. He can forever become the second to lift the Big Ears Cup, 27 years after Didier Deschamps and Marseille. A life is also measured by the legacy we leave and Thiago Silva can end like that, on a bubble of eternal happiness. It will switch live on the good or the bad side, it's dizzying and magnificent.
If all goes well, Paris can then celebrate at the Parc des Princes. First during the week, with the 5,000-person mark, then before a football match. The first of the season in the capital offers on September 13 a face-to-face with… Marseille, the hereditary rival. Ligue 1 has really planned everything, between resumption during the Champions League and inviting classmates who we don't like to the pajama party. Seems like the moment is historic.
Happiness is not given but is taken and learned. To reach a world that can no longer be mastered, between a city of light transformed into an open-air nightclub and Parisian supporters who want it even more than all the others put together, we will have to beat Bayern and its impressive football machine. In perpetual movement, the Munichers drive a hyper offensive team but with defensive largesse. In short, there is a space for Neymar and Mbappé. Others are welcome, too. It's a party open to all, with a fairly simple dress code required for Paris: put on your clothes of light and enter the dream. We'll take care of writing the captions.