Even if no one in the locker room is going to openly criticize this express tour in Qatar. PSG players are not necessarily happy to go to Doha for 48 short hours. This Saturday, as soon as the match ended in Montpellier. Mauricio Pochettino and his players will jump on a private plane to reach Doha.
After their installation Sunday morning in a luxurious hotel and a little rest, the players will participate in a light training on site before carrying out commercial operations for many Qatari partners.
Why this express tour?
An important reminder to understand why the PSG imposes this tour at no charge. The club has five Qatari sponsors (Qatar Airways, Qatar National Bank, Ooredoo, Aspetar/Aspire and the Qatar Tourism Board). To satisfy – the year of the World Cup in the country – these partners, a trip (the Winter Tour) was planned for January 2022 but it was postponed due to excessive health restrictions at the time.
Ask for the program!
For this 2,000-hour tour, a press conference is scheduled for 5:45 p.m. (local time) on Sunday for Middle Eastern media. Then PSG and its Qatari partners have planned numerous activations for the players. Here is a mix of part of the Parisian program:
Sunday visit of club players to the Aspetar sports clinic to shoot a promotional video. For QNB, passage from club players to around twenty sick children from Sidra hospital. Monday for the tourist office, a coaching session is planned for 15 influencers of the country and then a visit to Souk Wakif or the Museum of Islamic Art. Meetings with fans of the country are planned via Ooreddo and there will also be operations for Qatar Airways in the stadiums of the 2022 World Cup (Education City Stadium and Al Thumama Stadium).
Apart from all these commercial activations, no time is planned in this program for a meeting of the Parisian group with the owner of the club the Emir Tamim ben Hamad Al Thani.
Even faster travel for four players
Sweet madness of this trip to the country of the owner of the club, four players will disembark on Monday morning to spend a maximum of 20 hours on site in Doha. Kylian Mbappé, Marquinhos, Nuno Mendes and Gianluigi Donnarumma take part in the UNFP trophies on Sunday evening. Just after the announced coronation of Kylian Mbappé as the best player in L1, the Parisians will also go to Qatar to participate in some commercial actions. Before leaving like the whole group on Monday evening for an arrival in Paris on Tuesday morning.