Opposed to Pays de Cassel in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France, PSG largely won but showed generosity towards the amateur club. A classy attitude that matches the spirit of the Cup.
«The evening is perfect“. These are the words of Gabriel Bogaert, sports director of the Pays de Cassel club. The team that plays in Regional 1 (6th French division) however lost heavily (7-0) against PSG. But for all members of the club, the important thing was not the result. The opposition between the two teams was too unbalanced to hope to qualify but the amateur players had a moment that “will stay engraved for life“In their memory, jubilates Corentin Rapaille. And PSG is no stranger to it.
The club of the capital has put the means to make this match the best memory possible for this club of a village which has barely 2,000 inhabitants: “We were in discussions with PSG all week to surprise the players and there they had the opportunity to go outside the locker room to collect jerseys, take photos, autographs“Rejoiced the sports director of the northern club. He also wanted to thank Paris Saint-Germain for their involvement in this match: “PSG were classy from start to finish, they respected us on the pitch. They sent employees to make videos in our village to broadcast them on their website, they had never done it.»
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Swimsuit swaps and fun times
The fate of the match sealed after 45 minutes (4-0), the Northerners were able to take advantage of half-time to exchange their shirts for the first time with Mbappé, Ramos and others. Some were even able to chat with them for a moment: “We talked a bit at half-time when we got back to the locker room. We saw a few at the end. They are nice, it’s greatconfided Corentin Rapaille about the rather affordable Parisian players.
A player was still unanimous. As always, it was Kylian Mbappé who crystallized the comments of these opponents after the meeting. All smiles on the pitch, he communicated this joy to these opponents despite his quintuplet scored against them: “He’s an alien. I knew he asked not to go out at halftime. Whether it’s an R1 or an L1 opposite, it doesn’t matter, he wants to play, he wants to score. He was exemplary tonight as he is all the time. It’s Kylian Mbappe.simply summed up Gabriel Bogaert.
If the beautiful course of Pays de Cassel ended this Monday evening, the memories of the few moments spent in contact with PSG players and the shirts and signings exchanged will remain eternal. As the sporting director of the northerners affirms:That’s the magic of the Cup, that players from small clubs like ours can meet the biggest stars in the world.” And that is priceless.