Europe 1 Studio SEASON 2021 - 202205h00, June 20, 2022
PSG and Michel Denisot is a love story that will last seven years.
It began in 1991: to revive interest in the French championship, Canal +, the broadcaster of the competition, invested in PSG.
At the time, the club of the capital is in full sporting and financial rout.
It is to the journalist Michel Denisot, a familiar face of the viewers of the channel, that we entrust the mission to save him.
How did he build the 1991 team?
What relationship did he have with the players?
How did he experience the big football matches of the Canal + era?
In this fourth episode of the podcast “Les Géants” carried by Jacques Vendroux, Michel Denisot reveals behind the scenes of his seven-year term as president of PSG.
He recounts the legendary PSG-Real Madrid match in 1993, Yannick Noah's appearance at the 1996 European Cup,
On May 31, 1991, Canal + offered Michel Denisot to become president of PSG.
This Friday will turn his life upside down.
For the TV host, it's an unexpected offer, and a great adventure, both professional and human, that begins.
Very quickly, Michel Denisot realizes that he has only a weak idea of how to manage a football club.
He will have to learn on the job.
He set himself a goal: a title of champion of France within three years.
But before being able to experience matches of emotion, of those that remain forever etched in the collective memory, there is still a long way to go.
And for that, you must first build a solid team defensively and gain the confidence of the players.
This story is a Europe 1 Studio production.
"The Giants" is a Europe 1 Studio podcast
Presentation: Jacques Vendroux
Producer: Sebastien Guyot
Directed by: Loic Vimard
Broadcaster: Eloise Bertil
Graphics: Sidonie Mangin
Archives: Sound Heritage and Documentation Department
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PSG Champion of France in the 1st Division.
Interview of Bernard Lama by Stéphane Grodet, May 1994
The Patrice Loko affair.
Laurent Guimiet, June 18, 1997
PSG wins the European Cup Winners' Cup.
Eugene Saccomano, May 8, 1996
Final of the European Cup Winners' Cup (PSG - Barcelona).
Eugene Sacoomano, May 14, 1997