Kingsley Coman is undecided on who he will throw his support for in Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League quarter-final tie between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich at the Parc des Princes.
The 29-year-old is associated with both clubs, starting out with PSG, where he spent nine years as a youth player and just a single season as a senior player before he was sold to Juventus, where he spent three years.
Coman moved to Bayern on loan initially for two seasons before it was made permanent, and spent eight further seasons, making 339 competitive appearances, scoring 72 goals and providing 71 assists.
“For me personally, this fixture means a lot. It’s difficult to pick a side. I was born in Paris, PSG was my boyhood club,“ Coman told Bayern’s website.
“They were always the team I supported until I left the club as a teenager. And then came Bayern. I was there for 10 years, from the age of 19 to 29 – so my whole adult life, really. Bayern became home to me, so it feels a bit like the child versus the adult in me. They’re two clubs who are both a part of me.”
He added: “The foundation you lay as a young player – your playing style, your vision of the kind of player you want to become – I took all of that with me from Paris.
“At Bayern, I learned what it means to play for a team that has to win – and that will win. Above all, that’s where I developed that mentality on the field, under various coaches of course. My style took shape in Paris; at Bayern, efficiency, hard work and a winning mentality were added to the mix.
“If you want to win every year, you have to work every day and never let go of that mindset. It’s tiring but it’s worth it, because in the end, that’s exactly what makes the difference.”
Coman also weighed in on the current PSG squad under Luis Enrique, calling them the best team in the club’s history.
“For me, it’s the best Paris of all time. You felt that this team had the potential to win the Champions League but something was always lacking,” he stated.
“PSG were often very close in past years. Now they’ve done it, that barrier is gone. The same players go into the key moments with more confidence, and that’s what makes them even more dangerous.
“You see the confidence, you see how they’ve grown as a team. They’re now at the point where they always wanted to be.”
Coman is currently on the books of Saudi giants Al-Nassr, and is on the cusp of winning the Saudi Pro League, maintaining his record of winning a league title in every club he is played for in his career.
