PSG fans play tribute to Luis Enrique and his daughter Xana in Munich • FRANCE 24 English

And speaking of loose Enrique, when we look at the headlines generated off off the back of this game, of course, you’ve got the sports back pages, then you’ve got the celebrations, then you got the front pages as well, the two deaths, the injuries. But there’s another side of the fans as well when it gets out of control. Also, let’s take a look at this image. This is the fans tribute. So, this is Luis Enrique with Barcelona 10 years ago, his daughter Zena planting the flag of Barcelona. And look, the fans here, this huge banner, Tifo they call it, recreating that because of course 2019 Zena died of a rare form of bone cancer that shows that connection that we don’t always pick up in the headlines. Paul. Well, the it’s one of the sort of sentimental things of of this campaign that it’s it’s brought it makes him human in a way uh in a way because so often the coaches are seen as these these robots who are geared up for for success and to drive the players. But but this is a man who who shows his emotions and and actually shows his humanity and and you know saying that you need to track back Killian to help other people and he’s got um excuse me he’s got Dembele to do the same thing and he he shows his players that they have to work for each other and I’m I’m drawn to Warren Zier Emory who was the rising star last season and he’s not been starting. He got injured be, you know, lost his place, but he has to earn it back in. And and that’s what I think he’s brought to it. And he speaks with with passion and with feeling and compassion as well because he has had this this personal tragedy. They’re not going to go for him because he’s very good. And it seems to be merit meritocratic as well which is very very important in a dressing room where there are egos or they’re now budding egos because they they want to be part of it and there’s no reason to go and because you’re at a team which has just won the Champions League and I just have to add just quickly uh that story with Zana his daughter and he’s saying that her spirit lives on with him. He planted a Barcelona flag with her in the middle of the pitch when they last won the Champions League in 2015. And that’s Tifo uh organized by the PSG fans, which takes months to make, showing her plant a PSG flag in the middle of a hypothetical pitch. I have to say it it actually choked me up personally. Uh and it was actually something that a lot of the neutral fans around the world made them endeared them towards Luis Enrique saying actually we want a team led by Luis Enrique to win the Champions League. And I think that in itself just speaks to his humanity and it is quite uh amazing how he’s actually changed the whole image of PSG from Yeah. No likable. Yeah, it is. And it’s an aspect of football, isn’t it, that you still it’s crucial. So it gets to the heart of that care that we so often can easily miss

PSG fans paid a heartfelt tribute to Luis Enrique and his daughter Xana, honoring her memory with chants and banners during the celebration. The emotional gesture highlighted the deep respect and solidarity within the football community.
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  2. the manager responsible of the worst defeat of psg ( remontada) is the responsible of the greatest sucess of PSG Luis Enrique is phenomenal what a coach

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