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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Miguel Delaney

Luis Enrique underlines status as best coach in the world with emotional Champions League triumph

In the moment of victory, despite the global geopolitical scale of Paris Saint-Germain, the new European champions were only looking to one man. It wasn’t Nasser Al-Khelaifi, or the Emir of Qatar. It was, of course Luis Enrique, who the players symbolically lifted above their shoulders.

At that point, he was only thinking of one little girl. Luis Enrique had wanted to plant the PSG flag to echo the moment he had with his departed daughter Xana in 2015, but that went to another level. The emotions went to another level.

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