“We don’t need stars. Today, the star is Paris Saint-Germain.”
Signed Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, during his triple media release at the start of the year.
The Parisian president will not need to convince Danilo Pereira for long of the value of the collective, of the group, of
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we
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The Portuguese international (70 caps, 2 goals) represents the anti-star par excellence, not the kind of player whose name you put first on the match sheet when you are a coach or the one you have on the wall of your room when you're a kid.
And yet, every team needs a Danilo.
He has always been able to make himself useful, valuable, even indispensable over the weeks with all his coaches in Paris, since 2020, from Thomas Tuchel to Luis Enrique, including Mauricio Pochettino and Christophe Galtier.
The Portuguese will also be placed at the heart of the defense this Wednesday (9 p.m.,
Canal+
and
RMC Sport 1
), at the Parc, against Real Sociedad, in…
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