The historical conquest of the Champions League by the PSG Not only marks a milestone for the club, but also validates the bold statements of your coach, Luis Enriquemade at the time of the game Kylian Mbappé To Real Madrid.
What for many sounded to an attempt to motivate, this Saturday began to be erected as a prophecy fulfilled: the PSG, without its maximum star, is now the king of Europe.
And it also means a revalidation for Asturian DT himself, who has 10 years conquered the same title with the Barcelona and should hear voices that assured that it was exclusive merit of Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar. A decade later, without routilating figures, PSG exhibited the same boldness and quality as that Blaugrana.
At the time, and with the imminent departure of Mbappé, the Spanish coach did not hesitate to affirm: “I was very brave last season when I said we would have a better team in attack and defense. I still think that we are better in attack and defense, the numbers are there to say it,”.
The Asturian then reaffirmed in his position, which then meant a challenge, insisting that the goal was to transcend the dependence of a single scorer. “I told them that more than having a player who scores 40 goals, he wanted players to all score many. That is our goal, keep improving,” he explained.
The victory in the Champions League seems to prove him right. PSG has proven to be a more coral team, with a more equitable goal distribution and a more robust collective work, both in the offensive and in recovery.
The maturity of the team, given a situation that “we did not want but that occurred”, has been, according to Luis Enrique, “very good”, culminating in a success that redefines the Parisian project.
About the suffocating final that his team played, he considered that “We did a solidarity job, and Inter did not find the spaces to reach our arch and we have been very effective in the rival area. We played at a great level”.
In addition, he hoped he felt “Very happy, because this was a very ambitious goal for the club. We got it and now we will enjoy”.
Luis Enrique, Pep Guardiola and a devastating point in common
After the consecration of PSG in the Champions League, Luis Enrique today became the second coach to obtain the triplet with two different teams.
Thanks to this achievement, Luis Enrique got the PSG to keep the triplet this season, since the Parisian team had also won the Ligue 1 and the France Cup.
In this way, the Spanish technical director got his second triplet, since in 2015 he had obtained it with Barcelona.
The Asturian became the second coach to win a triplet with two different teams. The only one who had done it until now was Pep Guardiola, with Barcelona in the 2008/09 season and with the Manchester City In 2022/23.
However, several teams were to obtain the triple crown of a season. The first was the Celtic of Scotland in 1967, which later lost the intercontinental with Racing. The mythological Ajax Rinus Michels was the following, in 1972, and then we had to wait 16 years to repeat the achievement, again by a Dutch team, the PSV.
Manchester Unitedin 1999, it was the last team of the century to achieve the deed, and a decade later he got it Barcelona (also in 2015). When Inter He rose with his three trophies in 2010 an unprecedented event occurred: the only time in which two clubs celebrated tripled in two consecutive seasons.
Bayern Munich In 2013 and 2020, Manchester City In 2023 and now the PSG were the last campuses to hold the local league, their country’s cup and the Champions League.
Luis Enrique’s tragedy that transformed it forever
In 2019, the life of the Spanish DT changed forever: his daughter Xana He died with only 9 years for an osteosarcomaa type of bone cancer. Nothing was the same for him.
“Xana is with her family and her friends every day”Luis Enrique launched once the final legendary in Munich was completed. Lucia a black shirt with a drawing, a character that her daughter had created.
In the stands, the PSG fans did not forget a detail. They deployed one flag He illustrated the scene shown to the world exactly 10 years ago, when the little one planted a flag of Barcelona on the playing field where his dad, minutes before, had celebrated his first Champions League. Both celebrated again today.
Source: Ambito
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