Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin 9:00 p.m., January 18, 2023

The Pays de Cassel is preparing to play the most important match in its history against Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France on Monday 23 January.

Invited to "Europe 1 Sport", the sports director of Cassel Gabriel Bogaert already feels the impatience of the players who are already thinking of recovering the jerseys of the PSG stars.

Monday evening, Paris Saint-Germain will challenge the Regional 1 club, Pays de Cassel.

A meeting that draws crowds.

Stade Bollaert should be full for this clash of extremes.

Guest of the 

Europe 1 Sport 

program (every evening from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.), the sporting director of the 6th division club Gabriel Bogaert explained that "more than 35,000 tickets had already been sold".

A craze as we are used to for the little thumbs in the Coupe de France.

"Here everything is going well, big excitement," described the sporting director.

The press is also interested in this Regional 1 team. Since Tuesday, the players have found their new audience during training.

"We have training open to the press on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and behind closed doors on Sunday in Lens. There will certainly be a lot of people on Friday evening for the last one open to the media", anticipated Gabriel Bogaert.

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The players also feel this effervescence.

And some are already beginning to anticipate which Paris Saint-Germain player he will go to at the end of the match to claim the jersey.

"We know that most (players) will throw themselves on the three (Messi, Neymar and Mbappé) but we don't want it to be like that, we don't want to disturb. So I hypothesized for make a draw beforehand", delivered exclusively Gabriel Bogaert in

Europe 1 Sport

.

And for the unlucky, the club considered a consolation prize.

The sporting director breathed: "We are concocting little surprises for the players with PSG and they will play the game" without wanting to say more.

Great lord, the PSG has also decided to leave the entire recipe to the little thumb of this Coupe de France.

As a reminder, the Pays de Cassel is already insured for 150,000 euros, a bonus paid by the French Football Federation to all clubs reaching the round of 16 of the competition.