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  • 6/3/2025
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00:00It is really a new competition, but it is exciting for what it means that for the first time in history
00:16you will be able to play a club mundial to determine who is the best team in the world of the 32 that
00:22classified and a priori seems to be something exciting, normally when you play a
00:30world of selection and all the aficionado to football defends their country and then
00:36always has his second or third team that he may like more or his selection, better said, in this case
00:42I think the one who doesn't have the possibility of having a club in the world because there will only
00:48be 32 in the world, surely he will have his options to follow teams that they like in Europe, in Africa, in America, in Asia
00:55surely it will be a football party for the fans and I think it will be a competition that
01:02mark a reference to a world level in a future. For example, the majority of sudamerican players
01:09of high level are in Europe and I would dare say that also Africans and Asiatic
01:13say we said that Europe is the continent that reunites the most competitive leagues, are in
01:21which in theory are the best players and that is evident that it will have a repercussion in
01:27what is the competition, but I think that a club mundial is something that can become something
01:34as a reference to the future and I consider it very attractive, I have had the opportunity to play
01:41as a player, representing my country, also representing my country as a selector and in this case
01:47we will represent France, but this time from the perspective of a club and I think that it can be very
01:55attractive and I am sure that the competition will like a lot. Every time we have had the opportunity to go to
02:01Asia or that we have had the opportunity to go to another continent, we have perceived that
02:06love and the support of a lot of people who may have never been in Paris or have never gone to France
02:12but who have gone from tourism and still being a fan of Paris Saint Germain, well it is a
02:20beautiful moment to see the repercussions that the clubs have in the world and it is always very
02:26gratifying to receive that love. The goal is the one of each competition, to try to be
02:32able to be able to win that competition, I think it is a relevant club in the world that has
02:38the desire to make history and to conquer the most important trophy that there is in the European football
02:44that is the Champions and from there, from now and from this first edition of the World
02:50of clubs, the goal is clearly to compete until the end, until as far as possible and have options
02:56to win. Well, the favorites in principle I think are mainly the Europeans, I have no doubt that if the
03:04American players were in Brazil, in Argentina, in Uruguay, they would have more possibilities
03:12the American, South American, Central American teams, even the African teams also, but it is evident that
03:19the European teams we play with advantage in that sense because we have the best of Europe but also the best of Africa,
03:25America, Asia, I can intuit that the logical thing would be that the European teams
03:34would be more close to conquering this world but football is a sport that does not know
03:41about justice and in which they are allowed quite easily in competitions so short as
03:47the world is the world because we don't forget that when we arrive at eight in a game
03:51in a game, it is all decided in a game, in a game, in a game, in a game, in a game, in a game, in a game,
03:56in a game, so that football is a sport that allows surprises but I think that the European teams
04:03in that sense, I think we have more options.
04:06There will be more options.
04:07There will be a lot of people who are not European but it is my opinion.
04:11Well, when you are working, you visit little things.
04:15I have already had my first World Cup in 1994 as a player and it was in the United States
04:21when I think there was a lot of difference between the American teams
04:24and the European teams.
04:26Now everything has adjusted, has more equalized.
04:29But when we go to America, North America, Central America, South America,
04:34we perceive the love for the football that there are in those continents
04:39and it is very gratifying to go to America to play and I think it will be very nice.
04:46I suppose you have said that there were a lot of fans.
04:49I'm sure there are.
04:50And I don't think there is to encourage anyone to encourage a team.
04:54If you don't feel it, don't do it.
04:56Our goal is not simply to encourage fans who are already from Paris Saint Germain
05:02or who have sympathy for the country, for the city or for the club,
05:06but that our way of playing is an attractive way.
05:10I don't know, I'll give you an example.
05:12I don't follow a lot of the NBA, but when I see some players
05:15or the way they have to play some teams in the NBA,
05:18if it is attractive and beautiful and if you don't speculate and play the attack,
05:23you can feel attracted to this.
05:25Our goal is not only to follow the fans who are already from Paris,
05:30but that any good fans of football
05:33who want to see a beautiful game and enjoy a show,
05:37they can feel attracted to our idea.
05:40I think it is beautiful, attractive and we are happy to support us.
05:45I think we are improving the last season,
05:51which means that we are at a very high level
05:54because the last season we arrived at Champions semifinals,
05:57we won the League, we won the Cup, we won the Super Cup,
06:00so if we are improving that, it means that the team continues to grow.
06:04It is a very young team, but at the same time
06:06with a year of experience at high level,
06:09at the highest level,
06:11and I think we are prepared, as we are showing you,
06:15to compete against any team,
06:18no matter the team or the competition.
06:20If you want to be competitive,
06:22give you vacation to your players.
06:24We, after Christmas,
06:27we were probably the European team
06:28that the players have the most rest of the players.
06:30Ten days, nine or ten days,
06:32we are doing training,
06:34we are doing technical engineering
06:37to give them enough rest
06:39to incentivize the motivation
06:41that when you go to work,
06:43you want to work.
06:44This is not a job of use,
06:45it is a job of enjoy,
06:47but the tendency
06:49that the majority of clubs and players
06:52have is that
06:53if we play a lot of games,
06:55we have to play a lot,
06:56we are looking for the opposite.
06:59Curiously,
07:00and in the face of this championship,
07:04the key is that
07:06as much rest I can give my players,
07:08especially mentally
07:09and physically,
07:10obviously,
07:11with moments of disconnection,
07:13we will get better.