It's a timely birthday. Fifty years to the day after the first official match in the history of PSG, on August 23, 1970 in Poitiers, in the second division (1-1), the club will play its first Champions League final, this Sunday in Lisbon against the Bayern Munich. It is to mark this anniversary that the club invited Jean Djorkaeff, the first captain in the history of the club for this meeting played behind closed doors.
“It's still great, I was the first captain of PSG, but it's a long way and it's incomparable, breathes Jean Djorkaeff, joined a few moments before his departure for the Portuguese capital. It's a great pleasure, I am very happy that the president (Nasser Al-Khelaïfi) thought of me. He was the one who contacted me personally. It's been a long time, he didn't have to do it and I'm very happy about it. "
The former defender, father of world champion Yuri Djorkaeff, relishes the invitation all the more in a context of an epidemic which has reduced the delegations to their strict minimum: "We will be a small number and I am the only one or one of the only invited footballers. That's why it's extraordinary. "
The Emir of Qatar should be there
The former Parisian captain is quite optimistic for the meeting: “It will not be easy, because it is Bayern, but we have the means to score goals, we are well armed. There is a little more envy compared to other years. They want to win, that's good. When you see a defender open the scoring, it's great. There is a very strong desire to win and I think they can do it. "
Among the small delegation of PSG authorized to go to the Estadio da Luz, in addition to the leaders (Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, Leonardo, Jean-Claude Blanc ...), the owner of the club, Emir Tamim Al Thani is expected, even if no official confirmation has been provided by PSG. The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo will also attend this final unlike any other, as will Sébastien Bazin, former president of PSG now at the head of the Accor group, the club's main sponsor.
