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We want the team to have an identity, like Barcelona. All over the world, we admire Barça's game. We hope that one day the same will be said of PSG.
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Water has flowed under the bridge since this declaration by Nasser al-Khelaïfi in 2012. Barça, an enemy today, at the very least a rival. Perhaps PSG's biggest rival in Europe. The double confrontation which will pit the two teams against each other in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Wednesday (9 p.m., Canal+ and RMC Sport 1) in Paris and April 16 in Barcelona, will be hot. Not just because a place in the last four will be at stake.
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The Ultras Paris Collective has already set the tone, calling on the Parisian people for
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total mobilization
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so that
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this ignoble Barcelona
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feels
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in more than hostile territory
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on Wednesday, at the Parc des Princes. Anti-Barça chants have already resonated on Saturday, against Clermont (1-1). PSG-Barça, like a Classic?
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I won’t go so far as to talk about Clasico, but it’s a confrontation…
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