Why do we hate Paris Saint-Germain?
The dismissal that made the world of football happy
Much more than just nouveau riche hatred: the aversion to Paris' billionaire teams comes deep from the foundations of sympathy for football.
Nir Kipnis explains what the difference is between Al Khalafi and Florentino Perez and pleads: Go burn your petro dollars elsewhere
Nir Kipnis
10/03/2022
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
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Summary from the French Cup: Paris Saint-Germain loses 6: 5 on penalties to Nice (Sport 1)
It is likely that with the exception of a few Barcelonaers with a particularly developed Catalan national consciousness, most of the world's football fans jumped for joy yesterday (Wednesday) when Karim Benzema slipped the third goal into PSG's net - sending it to sum up another season, which is the best thing that could happen Is the French Championship, nothing more than a consolation prize for the team acquired with the aim of conquering Europe.
Pochettino may pay for his job, Messi will lose the golden ball, even in the political climate that gives him votes in advance, and the only question left open, then, is - why are we so happy?
The answer takes us to far-flung districts: we just do not tolerate novices, getting rich-new.
You know, the people who have tons of money but not even one gram of style.
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Bounced most of the football fans in the world with joy.
Karim Benzema (Photo: Reuters)
It's important to note that not all new rich people are like that, of course - and in general - every blue-blooded rich man was once a nouveau riche (though often many generations ago, long enough for us not to remember how the family made a fortune), and yet - when you see someone surrounding Even in luxury brands, you realize that you may be able to buy styling, but not style.
So why did the foam come out on PSG, when the same claim could apparently be made against other teams whose owners pour billions (in euros), to make them winners of the Champions League, the "interdisciplinary center" of the football world - a microcosm in which Rich people rubbing shoulders with each other?
Before we try to dismantle mine after mine, let's start by saying that football is a traditional sport.
Even the most progressive person in his way of life, finds in football a conservative refuge, being linked to childhood memories, to his father's house.
Those who grew up in a family of football fans are tightly bound to the experience of the stands just as the hymns of the synagogue on Shabbat will make those who grew up in a religious family in tears, even if over the years they have become completely secular.
Want to say - this is a world that is suspicious of attempts to innovate.
Football sympathy, as every fan (even of a successful team) knows, is bought with anguish - and not through some shiny buyer who turns a team into something for nothing.
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Buy a set of nylons.
Al Khalafi (Photo: Reuters)
Even tycoons (on a local scale) who acquired teams in Israel, say the late Ruby Shapira or Arkady Gaydamak from the IDF, did not buy a "stock market skeleton", but teams that have always been part of the Israeli football landscape. On the other hand, PSG, even more Long before it was taken over by the current owners, it was founded only in the 1970s, a century younger than most football clubs in England, for example.
Did we mention Shapira and Gaydamak? Here, too, it was not out of nowhere, but the acquisition of a veteran club with an infrastructure of tens of thousands of loyal fans, deeply rooted in the heart of an existing community. , In terms of the veteran football fan, this is a team from the nylons.
Wait, you say, but Lester also won an exciting championship thanks to the money of a Thai owner, supported by almost every objective football fan.
Red Bull Salzburg, who only played against Bayern Munich on Tuesday, also enjoyed sweeping support outside Bavaria.
So why did the foam come out on PSG?
Well, given that it's all a matter of prism, the latter two enjoy a balance parameter - being an underdog, the one that automatically wins the sympathy of "uninvolved" football fans "Her nouveau riche"), while PSG tried to jump straight to a place reserved for the old aristocracy, from Madrid to Turin, from Barcelona to Liverpool, from Munich to Amsterdam.
Leave them in Barcelona and the old order intact.
Messi and Neymar (Photo: GettyImages, Marcio Machado / Eurasia Sport Images)
And if we are already dealing with elitist hegemony in the face of new forces: let me be for a moment like that Dr. and claim that we are willing to accept billionaire owners like Florentino Perez, for example, at Real Madrid, but not a "discourse to something" that tried to drive not only the old world capital, But also to
bribe
the guard who stands at the entrance to the club reserved for the old nobility.
Curse - and believe it or not, but I also do not hug with complete strangers just because we wear the same shirt.In football yes.
And in French translation with a Qatari accent: If in real life I welcome changes whose purpose is to represent new populations in clubs that were previously reserved for old elites, then in football ... well, you understand: go burn your petro dollars elsewhere and leave Messi and Neymar in Barcelona and the old order On the whole, buy luxury estates, private jets and ... well, I better stop here, just do not touch me in football!
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