No tournament can compare in size to the "Coupe de France" - the qualification for this season started back in the summer of 2017, with about 8,000 teams participating in total. Among them - various teams from the middle of the Pacific Ocean in French Polynesia, the Caribbean in Guadeloupe, the Indian Ocean in Reunion, or French Guiana in South America. Straight to the final went the third division team "Les Herbiers," based in the town of the same name. Only 15,000 people live there. In the second part of the "Championnat National" table is a team that tomorrow we will face after achieving 23 consecutive victories - "Paris Saint-Germain." Les Herbiers is 400 kilometers away from Paris, but financially the teams are light years apart - for example, the average third division player earns 2500 euros per month, while 36 minutes of Neymar cost French champions that much. The total budget of "Les Herbiers" is 2 million euros - which does not even reach one percent of PSG's annual resources, which are 540 million euros. "The final should be over in 20 minutes," - after the victory against "Caen," PSG defender Thomas Meunier said. However, unexpectedly reaching this stage, the underdogs have already shown their fighting spirit several times. "We fought for our place in the final and don't owe it to anyone," - these were the words of the captain Sebastien Flochon, not lacking optimism. "Of course, luck is needed at each stage, but we had to win our matches." "Les Herbiers" will try to achieve their last, most important victory in the country's cup tomorrow at 10 p.m. Lithuanian time.
