PSG failed to achieve the main goal of winning the Champions League and becoming the team most admired by football fans around the world.
The billionaire owner’s pharaonic project to bring together Messi, Neymar and Mbappé lacked the essential complementarity between them and the necessary connection to the rest to find coherence, which identifies a true team.
Football is not just about bringing together good players, not even, as with PSG, extraordinary players, but about agreeing wills, putting down egos, perfecting an operation, replenishing talents, among other things.
Brasil 70 managed to harmoniously and effectively coexist the gods ‘ten’ because, apart from Pelé, the others, Rivelino, Gerson, Tostao and Jairsinho, ‘sacrificed’ the role they had in their clubs and from a contributed another place (Gerson further back , Rivelino more to the left, Jairsinho more to the right, Tostao more forward). In that Brazil, more attention was paid to the group advantage than to the personal advantage.
Mbappé’s individualism, Neymar’s whims and the current Messi’s much greater need for consistency and the support of a team conspired against football fans’ illusion of enjoying a dream trident. And there was no coach who was able to pair these glamorous footballers with other officials and bring clarity and shine to a game system. It was enough to continue to dominate the French league, but not to play at a higher level and conquer Europe.
The events of the past few days seem to herald the end of this football adventure (whim?) of the sheikh who owns the Parisian team. Sometimes, like this PSG, three is a crowd.
Source: El heraldo
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