{"id":3543,"date":"2025-07-12T06:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3543\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T06:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:21:03","slug":"luis-enrique-shrugs-off-praise-for-psgs-season-with-club-world-cup-final-to-come-paris-saint-germain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3543\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Enrique shrugs off praise for PSG\u2019s season with Club World Cup final to come | Paris Saint-Germain"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is just one game left in the season in which Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> finally won the first Champions League in their history to complete a historic treble and that game is the Club World Cup final, but Luis Enrique says it has not been his best. He was better, he claims, when he lost. Besides, the PSG coach said, Manchester City remain the best team around and his side must face a Chelsea team he likened to his own which can still deny them the perfect campaign and have a manager he \u201cloves\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Champions League was our first and it was very important: that was our main objective when we came to Paris last year,\u201d Enrique said. \u201cAnd on Sunday we have the chance, with the last game of the season, to win another one, with the Club World Cup. But it is important that we are conscious of the difficulty of the game. [Enzo] Maresca<\/a> is a coach I love. I love the way he has of playing with the ball. They have a lot of good individual platers but they also have a real sense of duty. They are a bit like our team. They are physically strong too. It will be a very even game and a very difficult one.<\/p>\n

\u201cChelsea won the Conference League, they finished fourth in the league, they are growing a lot. They have great players, technical players, and a great coach who I like a lot because of how they try to play from deep, always press, always want to attack. They are a very complete team that has produced a sensational season. This is no easy team and it is not a formality or anything like it. We will approach it 100% focused to try to round off a historic season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWas it our best season? Maybe, but we have to win to complete it. Anyway, you go a final and there is a loser and there is a winner too, but that doesn\u2019t mean the loser has done badly. We will give 100% and see which prize we get.<\/p>\n

\u201cA team is 11 stars, that\u2019s football,\u201d the PSG coach continued. \u201cWe don\u2019t want one, we want 11, or 13, 14, 15 \u2026 that is what we want. We are looking for the real star to be the entire team. It\u2019s like the fans: there is not one star, it is the whole of the Parc des Princes. I think the path is clear for everyone. We want stars, but at the service of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was then put to him that the star was him, and that he was the favourite to win the Ballon d\u2019Or coach\u2019s award.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe in individual awards in general and still less for a coach,\u201d he replied. \u201cThe team is always above the individual and that is something we try to transmit at PSG. Ousmane [Demb\u00e9l\u00e9]<\/a> is the best for what he has done individually, for the goals and assists, but above the goals and the assists it is because his work has meant that PSG won all the trophies. And that should be the only criteria by which a player is rewarded individually. That\u2019s my opinion, and I am sure there are others.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is nothing star about me. There wasn\u2019t as a player and there isn\u2019t as a coach. I like the work I do. I enjoyed my career as a player and I am enjoying it as a coach \u2013 especially the hard moments. That\u2019s when I feel most happy. It is nice when things go well because in our job you can make a lot of people happy, and I have learned to appreciate that as the years passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I know how this \u2018show\u2019 works: I know that people think you are good or bad based on your results. The praise comes because you win. The best team over the last decade was Manchester City. They lose 10 games and everyone kills them. They still have the best coach, they\u2019re still the best team. It\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI accept that. But I have been better when I lost. I don\u2019t mind; I like being criticised more than being praised. I think I have got it right much more when I didn\u2019t win and everyone killed me with criticism. You all think that because we\u2019re winning, I am getting everything right now. No. I got it right much more, I did much better, when I lost. But in terms of efficiency it has been an extraordinary year and now we have to finish it off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is just one game left in the season in which Paris Saint-Germain finally won the first Champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}