Luis Enrique Plays Down Super Cup: ‘It’s Not an Important Trophy’
Luis Enrique needed only a few minutes to put PSG’s latest trophy in its place. Fresh from Wednesday night’s 2-1 win over Aston Villa in Salzburg, the Paris head coach described the UEFA Super Cup as “not an important trophy”, moments after lifting it for the second year running.
The comment, captured in footage published by BBC Sport, lands differently coming from the man who has made winning feel routine at the Parc. Paris earned this one the hard way at the Red Bull Arena, as covered in our match report from Salzburg: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia fired Les Parisiens in front, 17-year-old Brian Madjo levelled for Villa, and Désiré Doué’s VAR-checked strike settled it.
Why Luis Enrique’s honesty will not alarm PSG fans
Supporters have long since learned how to read their coach’s bluntness. This is the manager who has delivered back-to-back Champions League crowns and a Ligue 1 title to Paris, and his verdict says less about the silverware than about where the bar now sits. In his world, an August trophy is a warm-up act, not a destination.
None of that diminishes the performance. A second consecutive Super Cup, won against Premier League opposition, takes some doing. And the club’s business this week, with Ferran Torres closing on a move to Paris, tells the same story as the coach’s words: this squad is being built for bigger nights.
The prizes Luis Enrique actually values are the ones that come next: the defence of the Ligue 1 crown and the chase for a third consecutive Champions League. If the Super Cup does not matter to him, it is only because the ambitions at the Parc have grown that big.
