INTERVIEW
It's a time that Parisian fans under the age of 20 would have liked to have known. While Paris Saint-Germain, since its acquisition by QSI, has still not managed to pass the quarter-final stage of the Champions League, PSG of the 90s had made the last European square its garden . "I did not realize at the time, but it's huge what we managed to do," recalls the micro Europe 1 ex number 10 Parisian Rai. We managed to make three European Cup semi-finals, and two European Cup finals in a row. "
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A key word: complicity
Indeed, the PSG version Canal plus and chaired by Michel Denisot then played between 1992 and 1997 a semi-final of the UEFA Cup (1992), a semi-final of the Cup winner's cup (1993), a half -final of the Champions League (1994) and two finals of the Cup Winners' Cup (victory in 1996, defeat against Barcelona in 1997). "It was more balanced at the time, financially and technically, there were fewer international players in the teams," said Rai. We managed to have such a close-knit team, a bond, I think that's the word that fits well with our group, we sometimes managed to go beyond our means. "
If the former Brazilian captain admits that it is "difficult to compare" with the current PSG, adding: "With the technical quality, the potential that the players, the spectacle they can give, it is gigantic." Even if in the opinion of Alain Roche, football consultant for Europe 1 and former partner of Rai, the team of the time with something more. "We had an irreproachable state of mind. Difficult to compare eras, but we marked the spirits with benchmark matches. We gave emotion." Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and others therefore know what they have to do to enter, like their elders, into the hearts of football fans.