Article by Daniel Scorpie – published on Sunday, June 1, 2025, 14:44 / Updated Sunday, June 1, 20:45
The popular slogan on Parc des Princes, “here C'est Paris!”, It must be updated, after the stinging manager on the cheek of the most humiliated finalist in the old and modern history of the luxury competition of Europe. Because the historical triumph he brought to Paris Saint-Germain now becomes a registered trademark Luis Enrique. More briefly like PSGit's Lucho!
The Megalomanic Qatarian project that has swallowed over two billion euros since 2011, delivering 36 trophies, but exclusively internal, and only a final of the Champions League, lost at the start of the pandema, offered fruit. Enfine! It was necessary for Nasser al-Khelaifi to change seven coaches, on average one to two years, until he discovered the magic recipe. Because magic can be called this incredible metamorphosis of the team that, with three stages remaining in the Champions Group, was outside Europe!
He took PSG from the 25th place on the top of football!
The Parisians had only four points and minus 3 and were in the 25th place in 36 clubs in the new XXL series of the League. Then, in the next 12 duels to the Oda of the joy of New Wave football played in Munich, PSG gave up only twice. Eloquent, however, in front of the only opponents who really posed great problems in the multiple champions in Ligue 1, Liverpool and Aston Villa. Both of the Premier League.
Otherwise, there were ten successes, with a general goal of 35-9, and seven matches in which Lucho's band scored at least three goals! Overall, in a memorable course, without having in the field on MESS, Neymar or Mbappe, PSG He scored with 11 goals more than he had done in the most prolific (2017-2018) in Champions! Luis Enrique succeeded in two seasons, which could not, in order, Carlo Ancelotti, Laurent Blanc, Unai Emery, Thomas Tuchel, Mauricio Pochettino and Cristophe Galler.
The former Spain coach, of whom it is no longer necessary to reach the too sensitive key of the wound impossible to scar from his soul, managed to make the fastest “double-trap” in history, overcoming Guardiola. Lucho is about 100 days earlier (it is not necessary to tell him older, how much slim Fit presented on Allianz Arena!), Than the club he took on the Himalaya football on Saturday. I can say now, without any exaggeration, that he and PSG have a common identity.
Luis Enrique and the “New Wave” Parisian now give the exact time
Luis Enrique gave the exact time in Corida with Inter, probably the weakest finalist in the annals of the competition. And he could launch, if he was already, a new style. As Guardiola imposed on Tiki-Taka in Barcelona. A New Wave, played with a “green” band, with the average of the age of 25 (the defeated Inter was the most old and rheumatic, not the most mature at 30+! With the youngest craftsman of three goals and MVP in a League final, the desired two (what a brilliant inspiration Luho had not to play him on Barcola!), And another U20, the Mayor, an offensive recital lock on Allianz Arena.
Desire Doué became the youngest player who contributed to three goals in a final of the Champions League. Since 1964, from the intersection of Sandro Mazzola, no other 19 -year -old has not succeeded this performance / photo: IMAGO
Simone Inzaghi did not understand anything. Like his students, you had to celebrate the last drop of energy this season of “zero holders” (Mourinho, the author of the formula, remains the internal historian with triple), they remained with their mouths in the grass, resisting the Parisian passes as long as the Linkin Park recital lasted.
Total football is played in Paris with Lucho as a magician!
Mass hypnosis, ultra-advantageous pressing, compensation of the areas out of the comum, rhythm breaks, extra-speeding technique, permanent changes, but also unpredictable directions and positions, recovery with ruthlessness, brilliant filter passes, transitions and without seams, counterattacks in a supersonic development and five goals.
But also a defense that did not make any concession on Saturday. Not even for the only weapon left accessible to Inter, the header at the fixed phases, with which Nerazzurri kidnapped Barcelona in the semifinals!
If France gave Louis XIV, King Sun, and the Vatican recently had Leon XIV, in the fourteenth year of the Qatarian era for the state club, the football Paris now has its emperor. And named with the same uppercase. Lucho. The first.
PSG's endearing scenography, in the memory of Xanei, the 9 -year -old daughter Luis Enrique, extinguished from life in August 2019 / Photo: Imago
From Xana to the new little girl who will come to the world in September!
As France was led by three centuries with “L'état, C'est Moi”, the present is “Paris, C'est Moi` or” here C'est Luco “! Luis Enrique again deeply stuck the flag of European hegemony.
As he did a decade ago, when the Xana kid was not just the scenographic icon. But it represented the meaning of the life of the coach capable of gathering and, after months when many would have cleared and may have been permanently withdrawn, to go further. Even the farthest.
From the tears, which during the interview at the press conference, flooded the eyes of Federica Masolin, Sky reporter, the joy of coming to another little girl will be born over three months. Chapeau, seven lucho!
