We spent 10 days with the delegation and the Parisian players in Lisbon, theater of the final stages of an unprecedented Champions League
Since August 11, the Parisian delegation has taken up residence at the Myriad hotel in Lisbon. After the successes against Atalanta in the quarter-finals and RB Leipzig in the semi-finals, PSG will experience their first Champions League final this Sunday against Bayern. Between the distance victory celebrations and the behind-the-scenes training sessions, Neymar, Mbappé and their teammates spend most of their Lisbon stay cloistered in their hotel.
Our reporter-photographer Arnaud Journois makes you relive the ten days that could well switch PSG into a new dimension and join Marseille, the only French club to have registered its name on the prize list.
1. The Parisians leave their hotel for the training center. As a good ambianceur, Presnel Kimpembe wears a speaker and sets the tone.
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2. Players use this glass tunnel daily. Covid-19 requires, they spend most of their time cloistered in the Myriad hotel located north of the capital on the banks of the Tagus.
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3. A tunnel that allows supporters gathered outside to see the players pass, like here Neymar who is going to a Covid-19 test under the gaze of onlookers.
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4. Parisian coach Thomas Tuchel suffers from a sprain and fracture of the 5th metatarsal. In Lisbon he gets around using crutches.
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5. But for slightly longer distances, the German technician uses a wheelchair.
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6. During matches, his foot enclosed in a protective shell, he sits on a cooler at the edge of the field like a certain Marcelo Bielsa.
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7. Usually measured, the sports director lets his joy explode in front of the supporters gathered outside the hotel after the qualification for the final.
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8. The Brazilian sports director accompanied here by the president of PSG, the Qatari Nasser Al-Khelaïfi. The two men go to training before the semi-final against Leipzig.
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9. The keys to the final largely rest on the ability of Kylian Mbappé and Neymar to manhandle Bayern's defense.
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10. The Champions League trophy at the edge of the lawn of the Luz stadium, theater of the final of an unprecedented 2020 edition, played from the quarter-finals in a dry match on neutral ground in Lisbon.
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