Who were you supporting in the Champions League final? I've read many answers that were made up on the spot, the kind where everyone felt sorry for Arsenal, a team that keeps missing out on the prize (this time with the cruelty of penalties, a real drama that we here know something about and you wouldn't want to be in their shoes), managed by a coach like Mikel Arteta, from Pep's school, meaning the Barça school, and which, historically, is a team that has always been close but no cigar.Because, seen from Barcelona (and I would say from half the world), no one at PSG can stand him if it weren't for the figure of Luis Enrique. Two consecutive finals, and two consecutive won finals, cannot be a coincidence. You can see it on his worn face, because nowadays, a director of anything finds it extremely difficult for things to be done as he orders, that his success is the result of many hours of not thinking about anything else and surrounding himself with a good team. And even more so if we take into account that to link two European Cups, he first had to build a team where many others failed by trusting that an album of expensive stickers would be enough.Which leads us to the laughter that escapes us from under our noses and makes the Parisians' victory more bearable: Mbappé. Because when it doesn't matter to your team at all, you always end up going to the sidelines of the argument about which result bothers the empire's machine the most, and, of course, that cover from two years ago addressed to Mbappé continues to make history: "If you want to win the Champions League, you know..."The most important lesson from Luis Enrique's (and Arteta's) success is that there are no shortcuts to a job well done and that the mountain of data that professional football moves needs a talent and a heart to organize it and, above all, to inspire it.

It was only a matter of time before Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions League. What few expected was that this season would be their best. The year the French club lost its star player, Kylian Mbappé, considered by many to be the best striker in football. But it turns out the best of all was not on the pitch, but on the bench. The club's multimillion-dollar investment was bound to bear fruit sooner or later, although PSG's success would be incomprehensible without Luis Enrique Martínez, the coach who has brought order to the locker room and tactics to the pitch. They hired him to win the Champions League, and he completed his work with a display in the Munich final. Inter Milan had no chance. And the result, oddly enough, fell short.