Either Paris Saint-Germain or RB Leipzig will reach the Champions League final for the first time this midweek but the prospect of these hugely ...
Also in 2010, PSG won the French Cup but finished 13th in Ligue 1. They were going nowhere fast. Leipzig, meanwhile, had just made their way up to the fourth tier of German football.
Neymar, the world's most expensive player, will be hoping to lead Paris Saint-Germain into the Champions League final when they take on RB Leipzig on Tuesday in Lisbon. Fans of other clubs sometimes laugh about PSG lacking tradition, given they were only founded in 1970. But they are veritable old-timers compared to Leipzig.The German club was only founded in 2009 when energy drinks giant Red Bull bought the licence of fifth-division minnows SSV Markranstadt, creating RasenBallsport Leipzig.
Red Bull, founded by Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, owns 49 per cent, with the remaining 51 per cent owned by company employees. Unlike PSG, Leipzig's footballing model places the emphasis on signing and developing talented youngsters.Leipzig's quarter-final win over Atletico Madrid"RB Leipzig is a pure marketing project. Created solely to strengthen the Red Bull brand," it wrote, calling the club"an imitation".
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