It's an original way to get back into the swing of things, a kind of muscular awakening in the form of a return to basics.
Monday morning, on this "day of the sea", a holiday in Tokyo, the PSG players did not have the right to a moment of rest.
It is the same, like Lionel Messi, Neymar Junior, Sergio Ramos, Marquinhos, Kylian Mbappé and Christophe Galtier who, despite the little sleep linked to the jet lag to which they have been subjected since their triumphant arrival the day before, were from 10 a.m. in cleats, ready to kick the ball down the field.
Under the air of "Allez Paris Saint-Germain" (in French in the text) and under a blazing sun, the quintet of players and their coach have indeed landed at the Chichibunomiiya Rugby Stadium to lend themselves to a "clinic" with young Tokyo footballers.
For 45 minutes, Sergio Ramos, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé thus played the decisive passers in the different teams which succeeded each other on their half of the field, while, on the other side, Marquinhos and Lionel Messi made the 43 boys work individually. and girls in workshops in front of goal.
A session that ended with a speech by each of the speakers, in particular that of a Leo Messi reminding everyone “that the main thing was to first think about having fun.
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“We realize that it is much hotter here than in Paris”, for his part chained Christophe Galtier to the microphone in front of an audience of children very happy to have shown what they knew how to do with the ball at the foot of their idols.
After assuring the audience "that there could be future PSG players" among the privileged young people of the morning, the coach invited all of the audience "to applaud and thank the players who took the time to come have fun with the kids.
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Because if the start of the day was framed and without overflow, it is because most of them have all followed up with other activities.
While Neymar and Ramos were talking about their technique in a TV show on the TBS channel, one of the main ones in the country, Kylian Mbappé went to a photo shoot.
He found the young Warren Zaire-Emery, Marco Verratti, Presnel Kimpembe and Vintinha in order to immortalize the passage of PSG with pictures taken in an emblematic site of the city.
This Monday morning, it is in the heart of the Buddhist temple Zojo-Ji, erected by the first shogun Tokugawa and nestled at the foot of the Tokyo Tower, that the Parisians staged.
The club of Five went to shoot an advertisement for Accor, partner present on the training outfits.
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