PSG have achieved ‘final purpose’ by successful Champions League: ’We had been formidable and we did it’
Jun 01, 2025 06:45 AM IST
Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 to win their maiden UEFA Champions League title.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique stated he and the membership had achieved their “final purpose” by successful the Champions League after the 5-0 thumping of Inter Milan.
Since their Qatari takeover in 2011, PSG have gained 11 of the previous 13 French titles however the grand prize for which the membership had spent huge had all the time eluded them.
On Saturday, PSG sliced Inter to items on the Allianz Enviornment to emphatically put that proper.
Luis Enrique, who gained the Champions League on the helm of Barcelona in Berlin in 2015, stated he had his sights set on the title ever since he took over within the French capital in 2023.
“On my first day on the PSG campus, my French was even worse than it’s immediately. However I stated the last word purpose for me as a coach was to fill the trophy cupboard,” the Spaniard stated.
“The one trophy lacking was Champions League. And we have ticked that field. We had been formidable, and we did it.
“It is within the bag and it is coming residence with us tomorrow.”
The supervisor singled out ahead Ousmane Dembele for particular reward, calling him “unbelievable” and saying “he deserves to win the Ballon d’Or.”
The coach paid tribute to his daughter Xana, who handed away from most cancers in 2019 aged 9.
After the full-time whistle, the French followers unfurled a banner depicting father and daughter planting a PSG flag into the bottom, simply as the 2 had performed with a Barcelona flag in Berlin a decade earlier.
“It was emotional. It is lovely that the supporters considered me and my household. However I needn’t win the Champions League or perhaps a recreation to consider my daughter,” Luis Enrique stated.
“She’s all the time with me. She’s supporting me, and our household, and I really feel her presence.”
