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Photo montage: on the left, Robert Lewandowski of FC Barcelona;
on the right, Sadio Mané of Bayern Munich.
© REUTERS/Albert Gea/Andreas Gebert
By: Annie Gasnier Follow
1 min
The draw for the 68th edition of the Champions League, an unprecedented tournament with a tight schedule with a World Cup in the middle of the season.
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Exes will face their former clubs!
Lewandowski will see Bayern again, Haaland will tread the Dortmund lawn again, Di Maria now Bianconero against his former PSG teammates!
The Parisians housed in a group H with also Benfica and Maccabi Haifa.
OM, in pool D, will face Frankfurt, Tottenham and Sporting Portugal, well off French clubs?
Group F, Real, outgoing champion, is he spared?
- Already rewarded:
Karim Benzema crowned UEFA player of the year, pending supreme recognition?
- Foot business:
European leaders announce a partnership with an application allowing players to bet on shirts during matches.
The end of donations of tunics to spectators?
- Rodents transformed into felines:
end of a cute nickname for Beninese, squirrels become cheetahs.
A more evocative and respectable qualifier?
- Cardboard sequence for the end of the show
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Annie Gasnier will be surrounded by Rémy Ngono, Frédéric Suteau and Xavier Barret. Technique/production Laurent Salerno - David Fintzel/Pierre Guérin.
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