
Luis Enrique directs the training of Paris Saint-Germain prior to the final of the Champions League 2024/25.
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“My biggest motivation is to make history in Paris,” PSG coach Luis Enrique said Friday, about the possibility of winning the First Champions League for the French Club. The appointment is this Saturday at the Allianz Arena in Munich (Germany), where they will be measured against Inter Milan.
“What really motivates me is to do something exceptional, which has never achieved a club as important as the Paris Saint-Germain, giving that joy to the club and the country. Then I will accept what football gives us football,” said the Spanish coach at a press conference.
The Spanish strategist assumed the reins of the Parisian team in mid -2023. Since then he has reaped six titles: two Super Cups, two editions of Ligue 1 and also two of the France Cup. All are local consecrations and now point to a continental.
“Everything can change with an early goal; we have to adapt and play the final from beginning to end. I am very optimistic. I think we are a team that is accustomed to playing the occasional final, they are situations that we have valued and shuffled. We will try to take the game to those in which we consider ourselves better.”
For Luis Enrique this type of instances are not something new. The Spanish returns to the end of a champions league ten years after having won it with Barcelona, also in Germany. On that occasion the Catalans imposed 3-1 on Juventus in the Berlin Olympic.
“I try to live with the peace of mind that gives you ten years older, to have ten years of more experience. I try to convey to the team the beautiful opportunity we have to make history, but at the same time that the emotion does not exceed us.” If PSG achieves the title, it will be its first international consecration since the 1995-96 European Recopa.
The challenge of facing Inter Milan
With Lautaro Martínez and Marcus Thuram, Inter attacks practically two front centers, a rarity in current football. “It is an Italian team, we all know its competitive spirit, a very worked team, which knows how to play with the ball, but if they do not defend themselves, a very complete team.”
In addition, Inter plays with three centrals, capable of defending far back and leaving the opponent without spaces: “My team knows how to develop teams like this and how to make that closed defense get rid of. The Inter has many high -level players, both above and behind. That's why it has reached the final.”
“What I try to convey to my team is that our tour has been hard and difficult and that is an advantage for us tomorrow. We are used to the Champions League we have already played, we have no fear, we will go out to play and try to show our best weapons.”
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