FC Paris celebrates the promotion to Ligue 1. A special club that ensures a special derby.
Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, Inter Milan and AC Milan, Union Berlin and the Hertha rivals within a city are countless in professional football. Sometimes within a league, sometimes in different play classes. In the French Ligue 1 there is now a rivalry that should also be extremely interesting geographically.
On Friday evening, the Paris Football Club, FC Paris, secured the promotion to Ligue 1 thanks to a 1-1 Übelkind FC Martigues. Paris Saint-Germain will no longer be the only first division in the French capital.
What is behind the climb: The richest family in France wants to record it with the sheikhs from PSG.
FC Paris has risen to Ligue 1
Stone owner family at Paris FC
Last November, the Frenchman Bernard Arnault, owner of numerous luxury brands (UA Louis Vuitton and Moët & Chandon), bought 52 percent of the club’s shares in his holding agache. He installed son Antoine, who had previously worked as a CEO at the fashion group Christian Dior.
However, it should not remain in the previous ownership, however, another 30 percent should be added next year at the latest, which is currently the long -time club president Pierre Ferracci.
Exciting: Almost eleven percent of the shares belong to Red Bull, which is why the events in the fashion metropolis are also of great interest to Jürgen Klopp. The global football chief of the beverage manufacturer was already on site in January.
46 years no Ligue 1
For the Parisians, promotion to the first French league is a dream that became true. Since 1978/79 the club has not kicked in Ligue 1, at times the team even slipped into the fourth league. Well, after 46 years, the comeback succeeded.
A comeback with a solid second division cader, which with Jean-Philippe Krasso probably has the greatest trump card in his ranks. The striker was once born in Stuttgart and has scored 15 goals so far.
Before the first game in France’s Oberhaus, one or the other more expensive and more renowned players should find their way to Paris. Thanks to the owner family, Bernard Arnault is lacking in the necessary money, according to Forbes , around 200 billion euros is not difficult – and sponsorship funds from Bahrain.
Stadiums right side by side
What has been lacking so far is the support of the audience. In the current second division season, an average of 10,000 fans found their way to the Stade Charlety, which would actually offer space for 20,000 people.
In the coming season, FC Paris will move to the Stade Jean-Bouin. An arena originally built for rugby games, which also offers 20,000 people and is right next to the PARC of the Princes, the stadium of PSG. The description “next to” is to be taken literally, the two arenas only separate a street.
The Parc des Princes (front) and the Stade Jean-Bouin are located right side by side
So it is quite possible that the rivalry, which both clubs once used, will bloom again. In the men’s area, the last derby to date has already taken place in 1979, but love for each other.
Escalates the mood?
Difficult in this context: In 1991 the Paris City Council helped the Paris Saint-Germain, which was financially financed at the time, with a million injection, but the grants for FC Paris were shortened in the same breath. The mood has not only been tense since then.
In 2011, youth teams of both clubs played against each other in a cup game. Smoke bombs were ignited, and PSG supporters destroyed the field after their bankruptcy in the penalty shootout.
What fans, responsible persons and, above all, the police have to adjust to the first meeting, this should still be unclear. But it is already clear that the promotion of FC Paris is quite a stir.
“The new specter in Paris,” headlined the Spanish newspaper AS . Le Figaro in France wrote about the “closest derby in the world”.