The Spanish Luis Enrique Martinez, who has been training at PSG for a month and a half, warned that the player “can’t think that he is the center of the world” and assured that the most important thing for him in his new phase is to learn French.
“Soccer players come before people. When you’re in a team sport, I’m happy when my teammate or the player who plays in my position scores a goal. Thinking that we are the center of the world, no,” said Luis Enrique in an interview broadcast this Wednesday on PSG’s television channel.
“Not only do you have to think that I should score, sometimes giving a pass is more satisfying than scoring a goal,” added the former Spain coach, who was asked in the interview about his method as coach and not about specific players.
So far, PSG have played two games, including two disappointing draws against Lorient (0-0) and Toulouse (1-1), where a dominant team was seen, with a lot of possession of the ball, but no bite in attack, except in the last half hour against Toulouse, when they were in sync. Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele.
A nuanced play style
Despite this, he assured that he will maintain the same style of play, although he pointed out that “the general idea does not mean that you play (always) the same way, we attack in different ways. The goal is for us to be unpredictable, attack with a winger , an extreme, with a nine”, reflected.
The Champions League, that obsession
Luis Enrique also did not go into the interview about his new club’s obsession with winning their first Champions League and slipped in that tournament “they will focus a lot of attention to do it well”. “I don’t know how many titles we will win, but we will fight for all of them for sure,” he insisted.
Your adaptation
Regarding his adaptation, the former Barcelona coach admitted that the most important thing for him was expressing himself in French.
“I want to learn it as soon as possible, but how difficult the pronunciation is. I don’t know when, but my goal is to speak French and finally I will do it, I still have to stay here for ten years. , we’ll see,” Luis Enrique said between laughs.
Source: La Verdad
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