The Red Star has the whole story that Paris Saint-Germain will never be able to buy. Antifascist, with a very marked social mission even today and considered one of the symbols of traditional French football, the club, which has just turned 125 years old since its founding, was about to pass into the hands of Gerard Piqué. “We are a little late in the negotiations,” the FC Barcelona player admitted in an interview with L’Équipe. Finally, who took the club that today plays in the 3rd French division was the American investment fund 777 Partners, which knows that it will have to deal with one of the hallmarks of the club: “We embody the values of the red belt communist ”.
“We were about to buy the Red Star. Unfortunately, we arrived a little late in the negotiations, but I went to Paris, I saw the stadium, I talked to Patrice Haddad, the owner at the time … I was interested because FC Andorra is working very well since we bought it. We are recovering the club in the 5th Division and today we are first in our group in the First RFEF “, explains the player and owner of Kosmos. “We are looking for replicate the model of Andorra in another club. We were looking for a club in Europe that could meet our wishes and expectations, and the Red Star, for its history, for being in Paris, for its spectacular fans and for its stadium in the process of renovation, went to us. please immediately ”.
The club, which is based five kilometers northeast of the Elysee Palace, was founded in a Parisian café in 1897 by Jules Rimet, FIFA president and one of the ideologues of the World Cup. . The name Red Star, which is one of the most proud of the organization, was chosen by Miss Jenny, the governess of the founder’s family, inspired by a shipping company.
On the pitch, and despite now playing in the Championnat National, the equivalent of the Spanish third division, the Red Star lived its heyday in the first half of the twentieth century, when it rose to five French Cups and he came to have in his ranks Helenio Herrera, considered the father of the ‘catenaccio’. Eighty years after lifting its last national cup, the team is still able to meet every weekend in more than 3,000 fans in their stands.
Although they started playing in the Camp de Mart, practically at the foot of the then newly opened Eiffel Tower, the gentrification ended relegating them to Saint-Ouen, a working-class municipality on the outskirts of the city. Currently, the area has changed its name and is part of the Seine-Saint-Denis constituency, but still retains the same essence, because it is one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital and it mixes great multiculturalism with immigration.
His story has been written, therefore, as well without a ball at his feet, because some of its members were symbols of resistance against the Nazi invasion during World War II and, a couple of decades later, the club was also involved in other historic moments such as when it helped fund the uprisings. 68. Today, one of the hallmarks of the club is the Red Star Lab, from which they lead the social missions to which the club’s efforts will be dedicated this season. At 21-22, for example, they wanted to focus on recycling, but in the past they launched a street art and English learning project for their fans.
