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Paris FC: In the Shadow of a Giant
Paris FC was founded in 1969 and later merged with Stade Saint-Germain to form Paris Saint-Germain. The current Paris FC exists as a result of the two clubs being involved in a bitter split with Paris FC keeping its place and professional status in the First Division whilst PSG was relegated to the Third Division.
Paris FC played their home games at the Parc des Princes for the next two years until they were relegated to the Second Division as PSG were promoted to the First Division taking their home ground. Since then Paris FC has struggled to establish itself, having spent the majority of it's existence playing in the amateur divisions whilst PSG went on to establish a solid foundation culminating in a takeover from Qatari businessman Nasser Al-Khelaifi and with it unparalleled domestic success.
Understandably there was some bitterness and jealously amongst Paris FC fans at the thought of 'what if?'
What if we had been taken over?
What if we were still playing at the Parc des Princes?
What if we were the most powerful and successful team in not only Paris but France?
Paris FC fans hold some pride in the fact that they are still a pure football club not tainted with the foreign money of the club a couple miles down the Boulevards de Marechaux.
After the taste and ultimate failure in Ligue 2 last season the club and it's fans are itching to get back there and begin the path to challenging PSG for supremacy of not only Paris but France and eventually Europe.
Paris FC was founded in 1969 and later merged with Stade Saint-Germain to form Paris Saint-Germain. The current Paris FC exists as a result of the two clubs being involved in a bitter split with Paris FC keeping its place and professional status in the First Division whilst PSG was relegated to the Third Division.
Paris FC played their home games at the Parc des Princes for the next two years until they were relegated to the Second Division as PSG were promoted to the First Division taking their home ground. Since then Paris FC has struggled to establish itself, having spent the majority of it's existence playing in the amateur divisions whilst PSG went on to establish a solid foundation culminating in a takeover from Qatari businessman Nasser Al-Khelaifi and with it unparalleled domestic success.
Understandably there was some bitterness and jealously amongst Paris FC fans at the thought of 'what if?'
What if we had been taken over?
What if we were still playing at the Parc des Princes?
What if we were the most powerful and successful team in not only Paris but France?
Paris FC fans hold some pride in the fact that they are still a pure football club not tainted with the foreign money of the club a couple miles down the Boulevards de Marechaux.
After the taste and ultimate failure in Ligue 2 last season the club and it's fans are itching to get back there and begin the path to challenging PSG for supremacy of not only Paris but France and eventually Europe.