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PSG-Bayern: Pinot, Karabatic, Riner, Gobert… the French champions united behind Paris

2020-08-23T07:13:21.982Z


To meet the immense challenge facing the Germans, the capital club will be able to count on the encouragement of many French athletes.


All together! Regardless of the playing field, the shape or the size of the balls, this time the French athletes will all be supporters of PSG. To be encouraged from a distance - health crisis requires - the players of the capital in the quest for their first star. Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly proudly wore a PSG jersey from August 13 after the victory against Atalanta Bergamo (2-1) in the quarter-finals.

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GOOD MOOD TODAY.😁 Back on track & @psg won yesterday, don't need much more than that! 💪😜

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"I'm behind them, you have to play as if your life depended on it," announces handball player Nikola Karabatic, double Olympic champion and quadruple world champion. PSG handball player, "Kara" and her partners will together support their big brothers in football. “It's going to be great. There were so many obstacles on the road: the championship canceled, players injured as the Champions League approached, such as Kylian Mbappé, Keylor Navas, Marco Verratti and then this Final 8 played in August. We couldn't dream of a better finish. "

"We will bring this cup home"

These champions know better than anyone the sacrifices it takes to reach the top. "It's a sick thing what this team of Paris is doing, adds Teddy Riner, himself licensed in the judo section of ... PSG. We're going to bring this cup home. In any case, it's really a chance to experience that. Some say that Bayern are favorites, but I am convinced that this PSG is capable of great things. I really believe in it. I have the feeling that it's written, that this PSG team will go to the end. "

This is also the opinion of Thibaut Pinot. Package for the French Road Championships this weekend in Brittany, the Groupama-FDJ rider, who will be at the start of the Tour de France in a week, had predicted after qualifying against Dortmund that it was " happy new year ”. A good year that the club has been waiting for since its creation exactly 50 years ago. It would be a nice gift for half a century of existence. And a great revenge for French football and sport. “PSG fans have been waiting for this moment for a long time, breaths athlete Jimmy Vicaut. A victory would prove that Ligue 1 is a good league despite what some say. "

Let's go @PSG_inside 🔵⚪️🔴 pic.twitter.com/RHlu5jMMfy

- Vincent Poirier (@ viinze_17P) August 18, 2020

If he is not a football fan, international volleyball player Kevin Tillie turns into a supporter for international meetings. “I play in Italy (Editor's note: in Latina) and I watched the match against Bergamo with my Italian partners, it was a great time, laughs the European champion. A final does not miss. It is important to support French sport abroad. We are proud to see PSG win, to be able to boast that French sport is winning. It is also a source of motivation. "

"PSG will be the ambassador of French football and French sport"

Although stuck in their bubble in Orlando (Florida) where the playoffs are contested, the NBA Frenchies do not miss anything of the Lisbon adventures of Kylian Mbappé's partners. “I watched all the games,” says Rudy Gobert, the pivot of Utah and the Blues. Paris is my favorite club and I'm going to see them play whenever I can. Unfortunately I will not be able to follow the final because we play in the evening and I will have to take my nap. I hope to wake up to some great news. I do not understand why some are against PSG in this match, it is not the French Championship but the Champions League. Sunday, PSG will be the ambassador of French football and French sport. I am 100% behind them. "

Source: leparis

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