INVESTIGATION – Opposed Tuesday in the Champions League, the two clubs will compete for a place in the quarter-finals of the European event. But in this clash will also be played out a struggle for power and influence between these two football giants, against a backdrop of economic rivalry.
Santiago Bernabeu was right. “One day, maybe we will meet face to face, at the very top.” Reported by the former editor of The Team Jacques Ferran, these words are those of the mythical president of Real Madrid, one day in April 1969, contemplating a confrontation between what was still the “chimerical club” Parisian and the great Real. Today very real, Paris SG challenges Casa Blanca in 8is final of the Champions League (first leg this Tuesday, at the Parc des Princes). At the time, almost fifty-three years ago, Jacques Ferran was working, with a few others, to give life to the project aimed at providing the French capital with a club.
“I can still see this massive man, both adorable and severe, dismantling for us the Spanish system of socios, which, it was said, allowed each of the 100,000 owners of Real to hold a hair ofAlfredo Di Stefano. He gave us this system as an example and thus concluded: “Count only on you and the love of the Parisians…
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