08/10/2021 15:09
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/10/2021 3:09 PM
Carlos Bianchi has earned the respect and admiration of Boca and Vélez fans and is a reference word when it comes to those clubs.
But it is also so in France, where he developed a good part of his successful career as a footballer.
There he wore the Paris Saint-Germain shirt for two years, the same one that Lionel Messi will now wear.
When asked about Leo's arrival at the club, the
Viceroy
predicted a happy future for him.
“I have no doubts about his professionalism and his success at PSG.
He comes to continue showing that he is the best player in the world.
He does everything: he scores goals, delivers the ball, scores ”, assured the multi-champion coach in an interview published in the French newspaper
Le Parisien
.
Bianchi, who played for the French capital between 1977 and 1979 (scored 71 goals), considered that the Rosario should not feel pressure in the face of this new challenge in his career.
“After everything he has shown in his career, what else does he have to do?
Who has shown more than him in the last 15 years and been so successful? ”He wondered.
And he evaluated: “Cristiano Ronaldo is there and that's it.
No need to find a third party.
Nobody can overshadow Messi
”.
Carlos Bianchi played for Paris Saint-Germain between 1977 and 1979. In those two years, he scored 71 goals.
The former striker who also played in Reims and Racing de Strasbourg in France stressed that the captain of the Argentine team had made "a brilliant tournament" in the recent Copa América won by the team led by Lionel Scaloni and highlighted: "When he has the ball, we still don't know what he's going to do. Sometimes I wonder if he knows. So technical footballers, with the ball glued to their feet and capable of dribbling several players, decide at the last minute based on the movement of their direct rival ”.
The Viceroy also emphasized the importance of Leo's reunion with two footballers with whom he maintains a solid friendship.
“You have to think about the player, that's the most important thing.
I want him to be happy.
Perhaps when he meets Neymar, whom he knows from Barcelona, and Ángel Di María, his teammate in the National Team, he will be happy again ”, he conjectured in
Le Parisien
.
Since the investment fund Qatar Investment Authority took control of the club in 2011, PSG's great obsession is the European Champions League, a tournament that it could never win (it was runner-up in 2020 and semi-finalist this year).
For Bianchi, the arrival of Messi places the French cast again between the two main contenders for the continental crown.
Carlos Bianchi, together with the president of PSG, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi.
(Photo: Paris Saint-Germain Press)
“The last two seasons, I said that PSG or Manchester City would win the Champions League.
My prediction was not correct.
But I will say the same again for 2022: one or the other will be the European champion,
but it is more likely that it will be PSG
”, he evaluated.
“For now, PSG have great players, more than a great team.
The question will be to find a balance.
But that will not be a difficulty because they are intelligent players.
Messi and Neymar were excellent with Luis Suárez, they were even European champions.
Why aren't they going to do it with (Kylian) Mbappé?
The difficulty will be finding the others to get the ball back.
That is the job of the coach
.
But I think that PSG has never been so strong, "said Bianchi at
Le Parisien
.
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