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‘PSG dominate every year, people want competition' – Gerard Piqué on Ligue 1

‘PSG dominate every year, people want competition' – Gerard Piqué on Ligue 1

Yahoo25-03-2025
The Kings League will come to France in April, opening up the French public to a new form of football in La Hexagone. Former Barcelona and Manchester United defender Gerard Piqué is the founder of the tournament, which found recent success in Spain. In an interview with L'Équipe, Piqué gave his view on the competitiveness of Ligue 1 seen from the outside. 'As an outsider, It is clear that PSG are becoming a little more dominant in the Championship every year. That doesn't help,' said Piqué, who has already convinced the likes of streamer Squeezy and 2018 World Cup winner Adil Rami to preside over their respective Kings League teams. 'The public likes it when there is competition. It increases the interest of viewers and therefore of the broadcasters''Ligue 1 has also suffered a lot with the collapse of Mediapro,' added the owner of the Davis Cup competition in Tennis. 'The third explanation, in my opinion, is the pay-per-view model, which is doomed to disappear due to increasingly widespread piracy.' | Freddie Aston
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