Founder Jules Rimet had two big ideas – a global football tournament and a Paris club called Red Star, which still tries to do good in the world.
Nobody is really sure where it is at the moment. The stadium, which is home to third-tier side Red Star in north Paris, is being almost entirely rebuilt and the stand where the painting used to be housed was recently knocked down. Storage of items during the process is a little chaotic.
It was there that the second of his great brainwaves came to be, a global football tournament designed to pit the best teams against each other; a worldwide jamboree that would theoretically represent the best of the game and conform, on a bigger scale, to ideals similar to those of Red Star.More than a century on, it’s fascinating and jarring to see how far his two visions have diverged.
They know they’re never going to compete with PSG, so instead, they think of themselves as the anti-PSG. It’s an example of football counter-programming. As one club employee put it: “PSG are the blockbuster. Red Star are the art-house film.”Rimet’s desire, some 125 years ago, was to have a football club that welcomed everyone, from every background imaginable, rich or poor.
We hear plenty about the Paris banlieues, the working-class suburbs that over the past few decades have produced an extraordinary number of top-level players, but, obviously, not everyone who tries to play the game will be Kylian Mbappé. Most will not make it, but Red Star aims to prepare those who don’t as best they can for a life outside football.
The theory behind LinkedOut is to help people at the lower end of the economic spectrum, to connect those “deprived of any professional contact, often stigmatised and excluded from society in general” with employment opportunities. Candidates are paired with volunteers who help them to find work. Again: wholesome.
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