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BayernFan

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Feb 17, 2016
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At times been wondering why French teams have been so poor in Europe historically.

They only won the European Cup/CL once and that was in 1993, Marseille even cheated.

No UEFA Cup or Cup Winners Cup wins either.

It's not like France is a small country like Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal etc. And yet their league and teams have been highly inferior to these small countries, bar in recent times.
 

juve123

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Paris Saint-Germain director Leonardo: "There's a clear foul by Benzema on Donnarumma. That's clear, it's a mistake by the referee - but we need no excuses now, we need to find solutions as soon as possible".
 

engireman

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May 26, 2009
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At times been wondering why French teams have been so poor in Europe historically.

They only won the European Cup/CL once and that was in 1993, Marseille even cheated.

No UEFA Cup or Cup Winners Cup wins either.

It's not like France is a small country like Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal etc. And yet their league and teams have been highly inferior to these small countries, bar in recent times.
PSG won Cup Winners Cup in 1996 and crushed us by 9:2 aggregate in Super Cup.

Also Marseille had not cheated CL and they also reached to final 2 years ago before won the final.

You are right, French teams are very poor in European competitions.
 

BayernFan

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Feb 17, 2016
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PSG won Cup Winners Cup in 1996 and crushed us by 9:2 aggregate in Super Cup.

Also Marseille had not cheated CL and they also reached to final 2 years ago before won the final.

You are right, French teams are very poor in European competitions.
You're right, they did win Cup Winners Cup. For some reason I forgot that.

But Juve were the one beating PSG 9-2, not them beating you.

Marseille did cheat, there's no way around it. Thats why they weren't allowed to compete in the CL the following season and why Milan took their place in the UEFA Super Cup and Intercontinal Cup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_football_bribery_scandal
 

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