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This Sunday at 1 p.m., PSG hosts Stade de Reims. A special meeting for Benjamin Stambouli who will return to the pitch at the Parc des Princes, eight years after his departure from the capital club. The opportunity for the 33-year-old midfielder to remember his 2015-2016 season with Paris Saint-Germain. And for the former Montpellier resident, one of the greatest opportunities he had in the capital was to rub shoulders with Zlatan Ibrahimović during his final season in Paris.
Asked about the Swedish legend, Stambouli then delivered a juicy anecdote about a Téléfoot report which offended the former AC Milan and Manchester United scorer. “One day, a report was devoted to him on TéléfootStambouli tells the microphone of Parisian. He asked me to translate for him what people were saying about him. I explained to him that we spoke of him as the king of Paris. I imagined he would be flattered. But in fact not at all. He was even very upset and exclaimed: “They are totally wrong, I am not the king, I am a god!”» A fan of this kind of outings, Ibrahimovic has also built his legend around this kind of lyrics.
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