In the moment of victory, despite the global geopolitical scale of Paris Saint-Germain, the new European champion is only looking for one person. It's not Nasser al-Khelaifi, nor the Emir of Qatar. Luis Enrique, of course, the player symbolically raised it to his shoulders.
At that time, he was just thinking about a little girl. Luis Enrique wanted to seed the PSG flag at the moment he left with his daughter Xana in 2015, but that was another level. Emotions reach another level.
After a 5-0 victory over Inter Milan, the PSG team brought the European Cup to travel support and fans announced the TIFO. Here is a photo of the moment with Barcelona in 2015, Luis Enrique planted the flag with Xana, except for his PSG color now. He was obviously moved.
He quickly made sure everyone else was moved.
Later in the press conference, a often abominable manager couldn't stop smiling - until he was asked about TIFO. On a night of so many conflicting emotions, he wanted to make something clear.
"Very excited," he said. "It's lovely for the fans and my family. But I don't need to win a Champions League to remember my daughter. She's always with us. I feel that when we lose, and it also crystallizes all the enthusiasm for our lives."
This story provides such a powerful emotional and human narrative for a football game, with many other elements, some of which are very complex. However, at the center of all this, it is impossible to be happy for Luis Enrique.
He has a manic energy that can drive people crazy and often so spikes, but he is real to the core. He is always himself.
And, in Munich, he was an hour's man. We are probably talking about the best coaches in the world right now. That's why the player who searches for him and lifts up his is such a symbol. Luis Enrique is currently higher than anyone else.
It's not just the result, it's even triple. That's how it is.
Luis Enrique's PSG is doing something unique, maybe even unique.
After a season, one of the main themes is that so many teams play in the same way, it is even more obvious. Even Thomas Tuchel complained privately that too much freedom was built from the defender. This approach is the evolution of Pep Guardiola's positional game, but it's almost in one direction. There is too much location and property, not enough personal inspiration.
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Luis Enrique's approach is also interesting. He follows the same ideology, but goes completely in another direction. His PSG turned everything around. Instead of retaining the possessions they own in this controlled way, they capture you with everything you have.
One of the huge challenges of each other's serious failure is trying to get them into the first 20 minutes.
Then, it has a delicate extra quality. He lets the attacker run and express himself. Kvicha Kvaratshkelia is perfect in this sense.
As one character said by the competitor club, they bring you a lot of questions that totally surprise you. You can't represent better than Kvaratshkelia's footwork.
He, Ousmane Dembele, Doue and Bradley Barcola are liberated in ways you rarely see with other elite sides now.
This feeling actually reminds Guardiola's own 2008-09 Barcelona.
This is appropriate, as Luis Enrique takes it further. In short, this is a complex evolution of this ideology.
That's why we're probably talking about the best in the world right now, and that's what pushes the game toward new restrictions.
Of course, there is a fair argument that the strength of PSG's Qatar support makes all this easier. They provided him with a blank slate in a league where they enjoyed a ridiculous financial advantage, and even some of their teenagers spent about £50 million each.
That might be what lifted Luis Enrique's ideology to these exact levels, winning another high note after setting a record score in the Champions League final. However, he now has enough work to show that he can take this approach anywhere and succeed.
Too easy to forget how the old and flat Barcelona was viewed in 2013-14 years before he took over. Meanwhile, a young Spain recovered in 2020 euros.
This made Luis Enrique not actually taking this approach to the Premier League, which became even more significant. Many clubs from Chelsea to Manchester United are interested. In the end, they all expressed opposition. There are several reasons, but the most common one is that he may be too intense and demanding.
In Munich, we see what can actually bring. This view also ignores his human aspect, which we witnessed that night.
Luis Enrique was the man of the time and the best coach in the world.