INTERVIEW
It's a Coupe de France final like no other. Friday evening - and not Saturday, as usual - PSG and Saint-Etienne will face each other at the Stade de France, after months without matches in France, due to the coronavirus epidemic. "We have a somewhat schizophrenic feeling," comments on Europe 1 Vincent Duluc, senior reporter for the newspaper L'Equipe . "We want football to resume, but we do not want it to resume under these conditions, because it is not quite football as we like it."
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"Tonight's game comes after a big void"
Guest of Pascale Clark, the specialist mentions in particular the gauge planned at the Stade de France, where less than 5,000 people will be present for health reasons. "Tonight's match comes after a great void, four and a half months without matches, without top-level sport. (...) However, the empty stands will remind you that it will be a match, but not necessarily a party", breathes Vincent Duluc, himself hospitalized in intensive care at the height of the epidemic.
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"Football constantly brings us back"
On the bottom, the poster is beautiful, however recognizes the journalist. "It brings back memories, because it is the mythical final of 1982, that the PSG of Francis Borelli, who had embraced the lawn, had won on penalties", remembers the author of A spring 76 ( Paperback ), a book on the epic of the great era of the Greens. "It's a poster that reminds us that football brings us back endlessly, endlessly in childhood. That's what feels good."
What score this time? Refusing to any precise prognosis, the journalist will watch this funny match with certainty, Friday evening: "PSG is much better armed, probably better prepared too. He can not afford to let anything go on the way . "