France is Parisian! There is only in Marseilles, the eternal rival, where the refrain of Marie-Paule Belle, "I am not Parisian", still has a future this Sunday and perhaps the days to come. But, in the song, it bothers her, and it is possible that, shamefully or secretly, OM fans also appreciate this magical moment. Because it remains a festive, sporting and passionate moment, characteristics that appeal to the Canebière.
Anyone can emerge victorious from this streak: PSG, first of all, of course, but also all of French football, which has been waiting for its second Champions League for 27 years, since OM. We cherish what we expect. Now is the time to worship what is happening together.
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Happiness often spreads in a contagious way and France puts itself in the colors of PSG with a momentum that will be felt as far as Lisbon. For the stories to take, you need characters. Behind the ultraliberal bubble embodied by football, even more the club of the capital built for several years with billions of euros and its takeover in 2011 by Qatar, often slip human adventures nourished by charismatic personalities. With the tricolor world champion Kylian Mbappé and the world star Neymar, two geniuses of the game, the PSG holds its two headliners capable of capsizing France.
Like the Blues of Didier Deschamps two years ago, the country recognizes itself in this team, beyond the specialists, because it conveys good vibes, a concept that we always need, in Covid-19 period or not. . PSG in the final of the biggest European Cup is first and foremost a story of friendship between players rather than football. French formations do not know how to do otherwise: to go far, they need to stick closely.
PSG had probably never imagined this dazzling popularity
Hanging on to fleeting moments of happiness is one of the nation's latest collective adventures, never so united as around the round ball. They were 20 million in the streets of France on July 15, 2018 to celebrate France which wins from Griezmann and already Mbappé. How many could they be this Sunday night? They will take the Champs-Elysées as one goes up the paths of glory but it is to be bet that in Saône-et-Loire as in Bondy the same banana bars the faces in cars with vibrating horns.
In its wildest dreams, the PSG marketing department had probably never imagined this dazzling popularity, born of a brilliant sporting career and a difficulty specific to Paris. While Europe gradually replayed the ball after the successive deconfinements, the French Championship came to a definitive end.
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Thomas Tuchel's team, a German coach tasked with beating a German team, overcame this difficulty as they conquered their own anxieties. In the European Cup, Paris has often been ridiculous in recent years and this French dream, this Sunday evening, is also nourished by past galéjades. In Lisbon, Paris can erase everything by sending Bayern flying. It will only be in Munich that we can still sing "I am not Parisian".
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