Boys from the Banlieues

Account & blog focussing on players from Paris and the wider île-de-France region, Parisian football & the role it plays within the city. #BFTB #Paris

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

I may not write about it and may not be as present on here anymore but man, I LOVE PARISIAN FOOTBALL!!!

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

Wow! What a night for Parisian football it was last night.

PSG vs Paris FC in the greatest cup competition of them all.

Paris FC do the unthinkable and beat the best side in the world 1-0 thanks to a goal from Paris born, and former PSG academy player, Jonathan Ikone. #BFTB

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_inside]

🐥 MADE IN PARIS

#FCBPSG | #UCL

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

My fellow Parisian football lovers!

Tell me what you know about Mahamadou Sangare. He is ripping it for City in the UYL at the moment.

I know he was in the PSG academy and he passed through Montrouge and my guys @racing_cff during his early teens.

What else do we know?

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_inside]

Enfant de Paris, sur le toit de l'Europe ! 🏆

Merci Presko ! ❤️💙

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🦅 Understand Eintracht Frankfurt have improved their bid for Eyle Wahi!

Package now in excess of €25m, deal getting closer with Olympique Marseille still with details being negotiated.

Wahi already said yes to Eintracht. 🤝🏻

[Taggat @taggatsn]

✍️ 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗟 | Le défenseur sénégalais 🇸🇳Fodé Ballo-Touré, libre après son départ de l’AC Milan, rejoint Le Havre !

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

Doue, Neves, Barcola, Pacho, Zaire-Emery, Donnarumma, Mendes, Vitinha, Ramos, Kvaratskhelia, Lee all under 25.

Hakimi, Ruiz, Dembele all reaching their prime year's.

I know they don't play like that every week, but tonight showed they could. Very impressive.

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

I've not thought this to myself much in the last couple of years...PSG were superb tonight.

Hungry, dynamic, full of pace, some great youngsters.

Are they good enough to win it this year? No. But keep that side together and add one or two more and in a couple of seasons...

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

@alexandrumircea No, the game resembled a knockout tie, with both teams being quite direct and throwing caution to the win. It was played at a pace and in the style of a knockout tie (up until around 65 minutes when PSG dominated).

It's how I imagine the European Cup was played in yesteryear.

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

I'm not quite old enough to remember the European Cup in its finest form. But this PSG vs City game is what I imagine it was like.

No group stages, no money spinning dead rubbers, just the champions of each country going hammer and tong.

Loved this tonight, even as a City fan

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

I've been very critical of PSG's transfer activity in the past but João Neves has been a superb pick up. Barcola too.

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

@ThePedronator He is! Phenomenal player.

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

Happy New Year to all friends, followers and Paris loving football fans that I have got to know whilst running this page (ever more sporadically) over the last three and a bit years. I hope 2025 is your year, all of you!

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

Ah memories of childhood!

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

One win in the last 11 games for Man City 🤯📉

[Racing Club de France Football @racing_cff]

#RacingHAC 2️⃣-2️⃣

𝐂’𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐒 ! 𝐋𝐄 𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝟑𝟐𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀 ! 😍😍😍

Racing / ✅✅✅✅✅
@HAC_Foot / ❌✅✅✅✅

#U18 #AllezRacing 🔵⚪️

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

💙🤍

[Racing Club de France Football @racing_cff]

Quelle journée de folie encore ! 🔥 Bravo à nos jeunes Ciel et Blanc qui ont tout donné pour nous couleurs.

Si fiers de vous ! 🥹

#U18 #AllezRacing 🔵⚪️

[Football Club 93 @FC93officiel]

4️⃣5️⃣ Mi-temps le FC93 mène 2-0 grâce à deux buts de Lassana Konté (38’ et 44’)

Allez le FC93 🔥🔥

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

Five ⭐ Racing!!

Top of the league for Christmas 🎄 and going into 2025!

Beautiful 💙🤍 #AllezRacing

[Racing Club de France Football @racing_cff]

#FCGRacing 1️⃣-5️⃣

⏱️ 90’ | ✅ Fin du match. Le Racing s’impose largement pour la dernière de l’année avec une victoire (1-5) contre Gueugnon. Les Racingmen passeront l’hiver en tête du championnat avec 26 points après 11 journées ! 😍

⚽️⚽️⚽️ Confiac (12e, 38e, 45e)
⚽️ Bernardino (51e)
⚽️ Mohamed Saïd Camara (60e)

Bravo à tous les joueurs et au staff pour cette belle première partie de saison ! 👏

#N3 #AllezRacing 🔵⚪️

[Boys from the Banlieues @BFTBFootball]

Great first half from @RedStarFC 🔥