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PSG, the other big winner of the World Cup in Qatar

2022-12-20T20:35:21.822Z


DECRYPTION - The success of the Parisian players at the World Cup, Messi and Mbappé in the lead, validates and serves the Qatari strategy of influence and influence.


Time for the balance sheets.

After 29 days of competition, the World Cup ended on Sunday with a Hitchcockian thriller won by Lionel Messi's Argentina on penalties (3-3 ap, 4-2 tab), at the expense of the France team. by Kylian Mbappe.

Unless the big winner is in fact… Paris Saint-Germain.

Yes, firstly because two of its stars were in the final, the two players who illuminated this final with their talent and the competition overall,

believes Jean-Baptiste Guégan, consultant in Sport Geopolitics

.

Add to that that the owner of the club is Qatar and that everyone makes the association, as we saw with the after-sales service of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, who represented Qatar and Paris Saint-Germain indifferently.

The big winner is PSG, especially since it is the club that has fielded the most players with a role … decisive or not

, ”continues the co-author of the Geopolitical Atlas of Sport (Éd. Otherwise).

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Source: lefigaro

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