While Madrid recently hosted an NFL match, a meeting of the prestigious American football league should soon take place in Paris, and more precisely at the Stade de France, in 2026.
Will one of Antoine Griezmann’s dreams soon be fulfilled? Indeed, last Sunday, on the sidelines of the regular season match which pitted the Miami Dolphins against the Washington Commanders (16-13) at the Santiago-Bernabéu stadium (Madrid), the French striker confided that he would soon like to see an NFL match in France. “ I’m French, so my dream would be to see an NFL game in Paris, a romantic game “, he declared in particular during a pre-match show.
This is good, and perhaps “Grizi” was already a little aware, but this idea seems to be becoming more and more clear. “
The American Football League is discussing with the stadium concessionaire to organize, for the first time, a regular season meeting on French soil », We can also read on the Parisien website. Paris, or more precisely Saint-Denis (because the meeting should take place at the Stade de France), would become a new host land for the NFL, which has organized events in England, Germany, Ireland and therefore in Spain this year.
Lauscha: “We are very excited about this idea”
This perspective was recently mentioned by Dennis Lauscha, the president of the New Orleans Saints. “ You might hear in the next few weeks that we should have an international match, and that match could well be in Paris. We have the rights for France and Monaco, so that makes sense, I think. We are very excited about this idea,” the latter said on Tuesday, in comments reported by NOLA.com.
“There is a desire from the NFL to come. Because the NFL identified that France was a country strongly attracted to the NFLwith nearly five million NFL fans in France. They want to come, then the government and the NFL just have to come to an agreement,” explained Frédéric Paquet, the president of the French Federation of American Football, last summer, in comments reported by Touchdown Actu. From now on, all that is missing is the formalization of this news…
