PSG players with the students of Doha’s PSG Academy.
Doha: Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe is happy and thrilled that he and his team-mates got an opportunity to connect with fans in Doha.
“It’s exciting here (in Qatar) and everywhere to meet fans. I think it’s important to have contact with your fans. Not only here, but around the world. They have the chance to come to the training session and it is open to them. So it was an opportunity for us to spend some time together,” the Frenchman said in an interview on the club website.
The French champions, who are on a four-day winter tour to Qatar to prepare for the second half of the season, yesterday meet local fans during an open training session at the Khalifa International Stadium, a venue for the 2022 World Cup.
Mbappe said PSG is a ‘young club’ which is ‘growing’ on and off the field.
“PSG is a young club that wants to develop itself. Of course, that firstly comes on the pitch, but also in terms of marketing. That’s what ‘growing’ means, in every sense of the word. It’s about sport, that’s the most important aspect, but also marketing. PSG have understood that.”
The Frenchman is happy with the way the training sessions have been progressing in Qatar.
“The weather is good, hot, the sun is out...that’s a bit of a change! We’re taking part in a number of marketing activations, interviews, and - of course - training, because we have a game to prepare against Guingamp at the Parc des Princes on Saturday,”
He said his team-mates are putting in a lot of work on the training pitch.
“We have to prepare for the games to come. We started 2019 without a lot of training, because the games came around quickly. Now, we have a bit more time, so we’re going to take advantage of that to work,” he added.
