This time it is officially announced: Presnel Kimpembe is no longer a player from Paris Saint-Germain. A sacred page turns for the club, but especially for the player who knew everything with his heart team. In an impasse under the supervision of coach Luis Enrique, the thirty -year -old defender chose to go to engage with Qatar Sports Club.
PSG confirmed the news this Sunday in a press release published on its site. Qualifying Presnel Kimpembe as “Paris Saint-Germain legend”, the club went back in time and retraced the career of “titi”. For example, he recalled the arrival of “Presko” in 2005 at the age of ten, his career within all categories of young people before joining the U19 and taking his first steps in Youth League at only seventeen.
It is Laurent Blanc who will give him his chance first with the pros, with beginnings one evening in October 2014 against Lens. Kipemebe will sign his first professional contract a few months later (March 2015) and will gradually take on the importance that has become his within the team. The 2017-2018 season will be his most beautiful with a triplet championship of France-Cup of the League, and a victory in the World Cup final with the Blues against Croatia.
Kimpembe, figure of the locker room and the PSG
He will carry the captain's armband from 2019, alternating with Marquinhos. Then the hard blow will arrive on February 26, 2023 with a rupture of the Achilles tendon. A real stop in his career and which will leave him on the side of many months.
He will replay a few minutes almost two years later, but he will never find his place again in the eleven holder of Luis Enrique.
Still close to the Parisian group, an influential member of the locker room, Presnel Kimpembe raised the Champions League trophy last summer. What to finish in style his Parisian adventure. The duration of his contract with his new club has not yet been communicated.
