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Barcelona President Joan Laporta Names the Team He Wants Catalan Side to Come up Against in 2025-26 UEFA Champions League

ÎLE-DE-FRANCE, FRANCE, AUG 6 – Barcelona aims to end an 11-year Champions League title drought and views Paris Saint-Germain as their main rival for the upcoming 2025-26 season, says president Joan Laporta.

  • Recently, President Joan Laporta told CNN he wants to face Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League, citing unfinished business after last year's missed final.
  • Barcelona reached the Champions League semifinals last season but were knocked out by Inter Milan, preventing a final against PSG many fans anticipated.
  • Laporta noted PSG’s Champions League and French League victories while lauding their style of play, praising UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin for organizing an improved Champions League format.
  • With the new format in place, Laporta said he is sure UEFA president Ceferin wants to see a Barcelona vs PSG clash this season, describing it as 'a match that the world of football is waiting for'.
  • Looking ahead to 2025-26, FC Barcelona aims to dethrone PSG as Champions League winners after last season's treble, targeting European glory.
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Joan Laporta (62 years old), president of FC Barcelona, greeted CNN's microphone for the exceptional Paris Saint-Germain season, highlighting his victory in the Champions League and in the League 1. He believes that PSG and Barcelona proposed the best football in Europe last year, and hopes a confrontation between the two clubs during the next Continental edition. Laporta: Paris Saint-Germain achieved a fantastic season last season. They won the…

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BARCELONA 6 Aug. (EUROPA PRESS). – FC Barcelona President Joan Laporta has assured that Lamine Yamal is the best player in the world at the moment, being a «new genius» that appears to give continuity to what he did in his day in Can Barça a Leo Messi that for the leader is the best «of history», while he would see with good eyes to cross in the new Champions League with the current champion, Paris Saint-Germain, when he said that they both prac…

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Marca broke the news in Barcelona, Spain on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
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