Coubertin's stands are ready to vibrate again.
This Friday (8 p.m.), PSG opens the ball, with an audience ready to welcome its five Olympic champions with the France team.
The opponent - Istres - is not the toughest on paper and the French champion should start his quest for a new title (the 8th in a row) gently, without forgetting the others.
Raul Gonzalez, his Spanish coach, takes stock.
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Bigger budget of the competition (17.8 M €), the objective of the club of the capital will be to win all the titles, and mainly the Champions League which escapes him regularly (despite five participations in six years in the Final 4) which begins with the Hungarians of Veszprém next Thursday.
In Group B, PSG will also have a hard time facing the Germans in Flensburg, the Poles in Kielce, and the defending champion Barça.
“We would of course like to win everything, but it's very complicated,” says Gonzalez.
This means that you should never make a mistake.
We regularly missed a little something to win this Champions League, a few minutes here, a quarter of an hour there.
Our opponents are still very strong, everyone wants to win this magnificent competition.
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"It's life that begins again"
The stage is set. PSG will not give a gift to anyone. Not the kind of house. The only exception: allowing future players to leave at the end of the season (Vincent Gérard, Mikkel Hansen, Nedim Remili, Benoît Kounkoud) to leave with a halo of success, just to leave their mark on the pantheon of success. of the club. It is in a way the year or never for a group which has lived (well) together for several years, and which has changed little this before the great upheaval of the next one.
“This continuity is not only the choice of the coach, but that of the club as a whole, continues the Spanish tactician. In the workforce, no one has a more important role than their teammate. I am fortunate to have a very high quality group, with many Olympic champions. What they achieved this summer is a plus for the team. They returned (on August 23, more than three weeks after the others) from their vacation in great shape. I had no doubts about it, we had talked about it before. "
The challenge is immense, it remains to be seen whether it is the size of the best club in France. One thing has already been acquired: PSG, like all the clubs in France and Navarre, will be able to benefit from the return of the public in theaters, until further notice. "The desire is still there, like the ambition and the motivation, because it is also our job," concludes Raul Gonzalez. The plus compared to last year is that the public is coming back, and they are ready to support their team. We will need it enormously. It is life that begins again. "