After analyzing PSG's rivals Barcelona in the Champions League, Luis Enrique has admitted he wants to coach the Blaugranas again.
Barcelona — Luis Enrique The Spanish coach made a reappearance on his unused Twitch channel after the World Cup in Qatar, where he mentioned the Champions League tie he was facing against him. Paris Saint-Germain with BarcelonaConfirming that it will be a “very difficult” crossing, he openly praised the Barcelona team, who did not hesitate to find it, even if it was difficult. I want to practice again For Barcelona.
“It seemed clear that we were going to get a Spanish team… We were going to get Barça. I was sick, of course, I've been a Gule member for 25 years and I'll be a member until I die. Sport, but I'm a professional, “My profession is coaching. And I'll try to get PSG in the qualifiers,” Luis Enrique said of his feelings about the crossing, promising it would be “very difficult.”
“I don't care about the favorites or percentages for each team. Barca is a club with five Champions Leagues and many players who would be starters for PSG. Or Bayern or City or Real Madrid.”
“Barça are a team at a very high level and will reach their best balance,” he admitted, admitting that Barca had not had their most exciting season in previous months.
He understands the pressure surrounding the tie with “the strength of the two teams”, with both clubs “under massive pressure internally and externally. Everything is news and there's that extra element you need to know. Management. Of course, for the Catalans and coach Gule, it must be more difficult for someone like Xavi.” I understand.”
The line-up of matches doesn't seem to occupy him too much, and in fact once he's drawn “Now I want to start at home to go out full force without guesswork. But we'll get back. The same personality and predictability, because it's better than the competitor at your house or theirs.”
“I have always said that I want to return to Barça, yes… but they have to love me and I have to stay; reality says that it will be very difficult for our paths to cross again. Barça needs a coach now but my destiny is to fulfill my contracts with people who believe in me. That I will not break the contract because it is not my style and I will never do it.
Although he doesn't want to get ahead of events, he admitted that if they beat Barca, they would like to face Atletico in the semi-finals. We've already played Real Sociedad in the round of 16, and now the quarter-final against Barca. Go to the semi-finals and I'm waiting for Atletico. A final against another Spanish team? Well, maybe not there anymore…”, he joked.
He mentioned two of the most talked-about youngsters in the Barça squad. “Gubarzi has shown the level he was in very few games; of course I will take him to the national team. The thing is, you have to know how to take care of the youngsters, Xavi is doing well. Now the environment of these kids is “I have to be perfect so they don't start flying. Lamin Yamal? I'm not going to praise him now that he's going to play against us … and he's going to watch? And will be motivating,” he joked.
Asked about Pep Guardiola, a teammate during his time as a Barca footballer, he praised him unreservedly: “Pep is a friend, someone who thinks and implements ideas that no one else in the world of football can imagine. He is compassionate. An innovator, a leader… he is the most successful coach in football. I think his titles speak for themselves”, admitting with a smile that he would have “loved” coaching. “Well, Ancelotti, Xavi, Klopp, Xabi Alonso… Luis Enrique? Even! I would have bumped into him at least 25 times though.”
Luis Enrique, using his communication on Twitch, presented the 'Sauna Foundation' created in his wife's company with the aim of accompanying boys and girls with serious illnesses and their families. The foundation was born out of the smile of her daughter Sana, who died of cancer in August 2019 at the age of nine.
