All PSG supporters feared that this day is coming. As late as possible. However, he became obvious. One year before the end of his contract, Presnel Kimpembe (30 years old) leaves his lifelong club to engage in favor of Qatar Sports Club, currently 2nd of Qatar Stars League. This is the end of a long, 20 -year love story between the defender and the Red and Blue. “”Press release.»»
This is an end of cycle for the player and his training club. Kimpembe had arrived in 2005 at the age of 10 at PSG. He did all his classes there before taking the step of the first team, something rather rare in Paris. Above all, and we can speak here of exception since the arrival of QSI in 2001, he settled there in duration until it becomes one of the leaders and even the assistant captain behind the unbeatable Marquinhos. Since his first professional appearance in the 2014/2015 season (against Lens), the left -hander has accumulated 241 games in all competitions, some seasons as a holder, for three goals scored, and a long record like the arm (8 times champion of France in particular).
Revealed against Messi Barça
First crossed by the duo Marquinhos-Thiago Silva, the native of Beaumont-sur-Oise had a long time to wait to make a place in the eleven. He had already used it during his young years at the training center. Kimpembe has never been an early talent, nor the one on which the trainers were betting for a great career. From his generation (1995), the Kingsley Coman, Adrien Rabiot, Mike Maignan and even Hervin Ongenda all have one step ahead of him. A laborious defender but also a worker as well as terminating, “Presko” has foiled all the forecasts to become an emblematic element adored by the Parc des Princes and the PSG over this last decade.
Not many people were betting on him, like this beautiful evening in February 2017 when he must replace Thiago Silva at the raised foot. For the very first Champions League match in his career, he stifles Lionel Messi in person. This 4-0 victory against Barça remains his football birth certificate. Everyone knows the rest. With the return of Thiago Silva to the field, number 3 attended the Rontada from the sidelines. Nevertheless, his performance has marked the spirits. Didier Deschamps takes him with him to Russia where he was crowned world champion in 2018 (28 selections including 2 capitanats). He even holds Euro 2020 with less success.
His serious injury precipitated the end of his story at PSG
His career especially took a very difficult turn with this rupture of the Achilles tendon in February 2023 on the lawn of the Vélodrome, of which he had all the sorrows of the world to recover. Since his return in November 2024, he had only played 5 pieces of matches with PSG (76 minutes). The advent of the Luis Enrique band and the Marquinhos-Pacho hinge ended up completing its latest illusions. Few people believed in their return possible after such a long absence. By way of services rendered, management had still granted him an extension (until 2026) in the fall of 2023. A gesture that the leader of the cloakroom will not forget and see him lift the Champions League last spring, even if he had no influence on the field, is ultimately the most beautiful ways of turning the page.
