Players, a team, a club?
It's a little more than that who will face PSG this Wednesday, at the Parc des Princes, and on March 5, at Anoeta.
Real Sociedad is an institution, a people, a side of the Basque Country.
A (relatively) small club which invites itself to the big table, pushed by an audience of enthusiasts.
“
There is a considerable attachment to the club, to the territory among the supporters,”
remembers ex-Parisian Lionel Potillon, who played for the San Sebastian club in 2003-2004
.
It is a region very proud of its culture and its origins.
When I signed, we had the press conference straight away, and I said
: “I’m very happy to come to Spain.”
And there, several journalists stand up, and the interpreter next to me says to me
: “You are not in Spain, you are coming to the Basque Country.”
I recovered and they sat back down, smiling.
It’s to show how attached they are to this territory, these values…
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