i expect a full recap of the game (both from the game and from the stands perspective )... they are expecting 2,500 lyonnais at th game, so it should be "chaud" a friend from japan was telling me that they are starting to follow ligue 1 in japan due to matsui... they have reporters living in le mans because of this guy... it's crazy lol... talk about a night life in that town...
oh man......homework? It's my first PSG game and I'm not even gonna try to keep my cool, so don't blame me if I leave the PdP with no memory. I'm not good at analyzing soccer skills and tacitcs, anyway. As for the reporters and journalists, that's the way it goes for every Japanese athlete playing overseas(Ichiro, Matsui.....). Talking about soccer, with H.Nakata(the best MF in Jpn) and Takahara(HSV) sometimes not even making it to the eligible list, Inamoto in the 1st division, and the glass-footed Ono back in Japan, we have only Matsui and Nakamura(Celtic) to focus on as they're the only ones that hit the pitch on a regular basis. So yes, Japan's beginning to gain interest in Ligue1, but they're more interested in Serie A, Liga Espanyola and the Premier League, where all the superstars are. To them, Ligue1 is more like a stepping stone, just like how PSG was a good place for Ronaldinho to prove his talent to the clubs with skyscraping budgets. I could go on and on about how so many Japanese people are soccer-know-it-alls but I'm not going to cuz it's gonna be a whole paragraph of dissing them(I'm not being prejudice or anything, I'm Japanese too. I just hate it when they talk about something they don't know at all). Anyway, I can't wait till it's SUNDAY!!!!
I became interested in PSG after learning that my great grandparents and Pauleta's (actually named Pedro Miguel Resendez) great-great grandparents are the same. Distant cousin? Yes, but related just the same.
I started supporting PSG in 2004 after going to a fantastic game at the PdP where PSG beat Marseille 2-1. Since then I have taken every opportunity to get to Paris to see them play. Like every PSG fan I have seen highs and lows. The most notable low being paying 150 euros to see them fail to beat the Marseille reserves in March this year at the PdP. The Best high coming in late april this year when I was lucky enough to be at the Stade De France when we beat Marseille 2-1 to win the Coupe De France, albeit sitting in amongst about 1,000 Marseille fans wearing my PSG shirt and scarf !!!!
I fell in love with PSG on a drunken weekend with a mate to the fair city. We just thought we'd have a look round the stadium, realised there was a game on that evening, brought a ticket without speaking a word of French and ended up in the game that evening. It was vs. Lens and Lens won 1-0 with a late penalty (I think this was in 98/99- can anybody help me with who was playing for PSG that day? Must be a website somewhere full of stats and line ups). Other than that my over-riding memory was the constant noise and colour and superb atmosphere. So different form English football. Planning to go back for the forthcoming season to pay homage again. Are there any UK based supporters clubs that organise trips over the channel? ha ha found it...great site http://www.lfp.fr/ligue1/feuilleMatch.asp?saison=1998/1999&code_evt=&code_jr_tr=J08&num_ordre=5
I'm on here a lot preseason and not much during the season, but here goes. I started liking PSG in '94 after a high school trip to Paris. Well, its more that I loved Paris and loved football and so PSG was an obvious choice. Having been back there, and to other cities in France, I definitely don't regret my decision to support PSG. I've been to a few games at the Parc and love it. I have very fond memories of my first game there (though it was only a tie) as it was my first ever real European soccer experience. Plus, I can tell people that I saw Ronaldinho before he was RONALDINHO. I have FSC at home, though they only carry 1 game a week and, maybe once or twice a month, its a PSG game. Otherwise, I'm forced to follow the team through the web and the French highight show that FSC does. Therefore, I can't keep up with those of you who can see them play each week so I tend not to post very much when the season gets going.
I have always felt that PSG should do everything within its powers to actively seek out a talented Japanese player and bring him to Paris. With the huge number of Japanese tourists to Paris it would be such a moneymaker, I can see the euros just flying into the cash register at the Champs Elysees PSG store.
You would think that PSG would have thought of this by now, but no. The people who run PSG obviously don't know cr*p about marketing or football.
Whats up everyone, my name is Jon I spend most of my time on the Arsenal boards but I've come to like PSG over the past year and to tell you the truth im not sure why. I remember watching a few games here and there on TV and I was always pulling for PSG and it has grown on me and im looking forward to following them this season.
To crowd: My name is Brandon, and I'm a PSG fan. My PSG odessey began in 1998. It was post-World Cup and my football roots were still growing. I don't remember exactly how I found out about PSG, but it all came to a head when I bought my first PSG t-shirt in 1999. PSG became my club permanently when the French exchange student started talking about the club and we became friends...she was really hot by the way! On a personal level, I'm just a student at the University at Buffalo studying to become a psycholinguist. A manic-depressive (d/t results) fan of le PSG since 1999!
I fell in love with PSG in the fall of 2002, my first year of university in Paris. Before then, I had been a LOSC fan by association, my aunt-by-marriage's family living there and being football mad. However, a friend I met at uni sat in the Kop de Boulougne and invited me along for a game. I instantly fell in love with the team, and though I tried to keep a hold of my LOSC loyalty, it fell to the side after the stadium redevelopment there fell through. Went to games whenever I could spare money up until I graduated last summer. I still try to stay on top of things, but the team is hard to track without seeing them play. Regardless, I will always hold a special place for PSG.
I've been supporting PSG since the early 80s, my father used to take me to the Parc des Princes to see matches, the best memory being the 1982 Cup Final we won vs St Etienne. I've pretty much seen all the best matches in the stadium including the now legendary PSG - Real Madrid in 1993. Unfortunately the last 10 years sucked for us but I hope the team will shine again and make me dream as it did for the first 15 years or so I've been following them. I'll support PSG over the national team anytime: parisian before being french!!!
soyez tous les bienvenues - cheng, zona, urtel, cmaddict, et m. le hooligan ^you sit in which section?
Hello everyone. My name is Ali, like the famous boxer. I live here in Southern California near the city of Los Angeles. I am a HUUUUGGGGEE supporter of arsenal, but here is the story of how I came to like PSG: Well, One day im sitting on youtube.com and I just happened to come across PSG vs. Metz when all the PSG fans were making the Parc into a Firework show. I did some further investigation, and I have to admit that PSG fans are some of the most loyal and passionate fans. I wish sports in America had PSG loyalty. I have made the switch now from Monaco to PSG as my french team just because of what i saw in those videos. Truly remarkable. I hope to visit Parc in the near future and embrace the Parisian flair. I am a college student here in California, 19 years old. I am majoring in Medicine. I am a member of the famous Los Angeles Galaxy group The Riot Squad. I list my teams as follows in the way i root for them. Arsenal because i was first introduced to them before any other team at the age of 8 LA Galaxy because of their local ties here and the besssst fans in MLS PSG- see above AC Milan-Shevchenko amazed me French national team-the team ive rooted for because of my fav players Zizou and Henry. ITALY GOT LUCKY!!!!! and lastly i do tend to root for Schalke 04 every now and then Also a big fan of Israeli football, because my family is of Palestnian origin and have visited many of these football stadiums. ALLEZ PARIS!!!!!!!
I started supporting PSG in 1993-1994. I was 7 years old, and I was watching PSG against Real, that struck me, but just enough to make me interested, especially since there's no other team in Paris, lol, so if my father wanted to bring me to a football game, it had to be for Paris. Then it's in 1994 that I became a true fan, and I had two club loves (and they're still my favorite clubs), Barcelona for Stoichkov, and PSG for Ginola. Ginola was my favorite, he's part of my PSG lineup of legends. Then came Weah against Bayern Munich in 1995. I can tell you for the next weeks I was on the field trying to emulate him Then there's 1996 and Djorkaeff, etc. Eventually since 1998 the team has been in trouble, but I've always been behind it, with Anelka, Robert, Ronnie, and so on. And when I moved to the US, I kept following it on the net, and on tv, now it's on streams, although they're not always available.
You mean this utterly sick goal by George Weah. I had never heard of him or seen this goal....all I can say is, WOW! http://youtube.com/watch?v=K6rW_xreNlI
all hail king george. who can forget his solo goal running the whole length of the field to score. http://youtube.com/watch?v=mQak_d2UX_o belated welcome to gotham
Not 2 hours in my race car ;-) But I attend orange coast college, and hoping to transfer to ucla eventually.
Bonjour my name is Romain, I am 23 years old, I work in Paris and I live at 3.5 km from Paris. When I was child, my father took me regularly at the parc des princes, my first match to the parc was PSG. MONTPELLIER (1-1) in 1991 with a goal of Laurent Fournier. In the years that followed, the psg knew the most beautiful period of its history with one historic match: PSG. REAL MADRID (4-1) (when I review the videos of this match I have more thrills). It is the old history, but even with the difficult period that the club lives currently, I believe again in it and more than always!!! Here it is Paris
u should try to find some information about him he is one of the best african players ever ^^ let's introduce myself well my name is nicolas i'm passionated about korea but i support psg since i'm a kid as ginola was my idol when i were younger and the team with rai, lama , le guen and so on got something special and attractive i still support paris of course even if not it's not as glorious as in the past but we all still hope we will doing well soon you can check out this website there is a good video of pauleta http://www.planetepsg.com/index.php?page=videos&saison_video=2005