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Luis Enrique was always different. As a player and as a coach. Now, from the bench of Paris Saint-Germain, it surprises again with an experiment that seems simple, but that no one had dared to institutionalize: direct the early days from the gallery.
It is not a whim. From above, he says, the game is better understood. It is the same principle that rugby coaches apply. To the rest goes down to the bench, share what you have seen, adjust what you have to adjust and plant in the lime line for the second half. And he will do it alone in the local matches. Pure revolution.
It is not the first time that Luis Enrique breaks with the established. In his time with the Spanish team he set up scaffolding in training to look at the practice from a different perspective. Sometimes it climbed those structures with speakers who reproduced shouts of tribune to simulate the real pressure of the stadiums. I wanted their players to feel, on any Tuesday, what is lived on a Sunday in a final.
During the Catar World Cup, the communication rules also changed. While his colleagues repeated common places in press conferences, he transmitted on Twitch. He told what he did, answered people's questions, opened the door to the fans and displaced traditional media to the background. It was not just a gesture: it was a paradigm change in the way of relating to public opinion. A national coach speaking without intermediaries, naturally, with humor, with passion. Another revolution.
His career also speaks for him. He won a triplet with Barcelona in 2015 and another with the PSG in 2025. He is just the second technician in history capable of doing so with two different clubs. His football has always had a seal: intensity, occupation of spaces, suffocating pressure. But beyond the board, what defines it is that need to look at football from angles that others do not even dare to explore.
In 2019 he lost his little daughter, Xana, victim of an osteosarcoma. He did it with strength, without victimized, and that experience made him even more intense, more human and closer in the midst of his incessant search to reinvent himself.
In the background, Luis Enrique represents something that transcends football. It reminds us that innovation does not consist in inventing the impossible, but in daring to see the usual from another place. To climb a couple of steps above to have a different look. To communicate with people in another way. Not to settle for the manual.
In all trades, characters are needed. Passionate, dissatisfied people, capable of breaking routines and creating new paths. Luis Enrique, with his triumphs, his defeats and his revolutions, reminds us that it is always possible to direct life from above to understand it better down.
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