As the hundreds of VIP guests at Uefa’s official Champions League final dinner listened attentively, Aleksander Ceferin addressed his audience. It was the night before Paris Saint‑Germain eviscerated Inter and, taking the floor before the starters were served at Munich’s Paulaner am Nockherberg brewery, he elected to keep his predictions general. “Tomorrow we play the best game a club could ever play,” he said. “The one who wins tomorrow will be the best club in the world.”
Ceferin’s wording was no accident. The final took place against the context of Uefa’s continuing tensions with Fifa and, most pertinent, the imminent rebirth of the Club World Cup. Whether PSG are the planet’s most becoming football institution may depend on where your moral compass points but, about 26 hours after the Uefa president’s speech, they proved beyond any doubt that their team sit above everyone.
