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PSG's Desire Doue, left, and Warren Zaire-Emery locomotion onto the halfway tribunal with Chgampions league trophy astatine the French Open tennis tourney successful Paris, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo)
Fresh from Paris Saint-Germain's Champions League triumph, Ballon d'Or victor Ousmane Dembele and 3 of his teammates brought the trophy to the French Open connected Monday and presented it to fans astatine Roland Garros.Dembele was joined by chap France internationals Bradley Barcola, Warren Zaire-Emery and Desire Doue.
The quartet received a lasting ovation arsenic they walked onto the Philippe-Chatrier tribunal carrying the Champions League trophy.
PSG secured European nine football's biggest prize for a 2nd consecutive play connected Saturday aft defeating Arsenal successful the final. The lucifer ended 1-1 earlier PSG won 4-3 successful a punishment shootout astatine the Puskas Arena.PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi was besides contiguous astatine Roland Garros. The French Open venue is located adjacent to PSG's location ground, the Parc des Princes.
Al-Khelaifi, a erstwhile tennis player, competed successful 2 ATP Tour matches during his career, including 1 against Thomas Muster, the 1995 French Open champion. He besides represented Qatar successful the Davis Cup.
Wearing sunglasses, Dembele addressed the assemblage and led a chant acquainted to PSG supporters.“Ici c’est Paris!” (This is Paris!),” Dembele shouted, prompting galore fans successful the stands to articulation in.Reflecting connected PSG's achievement, helium said: “We worked each time passim the play to triumph this trophy erstwhile again.
We'll effort to triumph different 1 adjacent play but earlier that determination is the World Cup with the France team.”France volition present crook its attraction to the World Cup, which begins connected June 11 and volition beryllium hosted by the Mexico, Canada and the United States.Dembele, Zaire-Emery, Barcola and Doue are scheduled to articulation France's grooming campy connected Tuesday up of the tournament.France volition play warm-up matches against Ivory Coast successful Nantes connected Thursday and Northern Ireland successful Lille adjacent Monday earlier travelling to the United States for the World Cup, which runs from June 11 to July 19.France person been drawn successful Group I alongside Senegal, Iraq and Norway.
