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"She still sees us"! Luis Enrique and the dream of the Champions League final with his deceased daughter Xana

2025-05-31 16:05:00Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"She still sees us"! Luis Enrique and the dream of the Champions
Luis Enrique and Xana

The Champions League final is in itself one of the most anticipated events of the year, and inevitably brings history, both before and after it.

PSG-Inter is the final of the 2024-2025 season and will be played in Munich, where Simone Inzaghi and Luis Enrique, who triumphed with Barcelona exactly ten years ago, will experience the second final in their careers. After that match, he celebrated the success with his daughter Xana, who was 5 years old at the time and who passed away in 2019 after a short and brutal illness.

He thinks about his daughter often, he will do so even in the moments before the final, and he hopes to remember her after the match by doing something very special. Months ago, Luis Enrique recalled what happened ten years ago, after the Barcelona-Juventus final: "My daughter will not be physically present in the final, but she will be there spiritually. My dream is to repeat the scene that happened after the 2015 final, when Xana planted a Barcelona flag. I want to do the same with PSG."

Luis Enrique's desire to honor his daughter Xana

For years, Luis Enrique has been considered a divisive figure: you either love him or hate him; but over time, many have begun to understand him. This year, PSG started the Champions League very badly and by the December break they were more out than in. The victory against Manchester City changed everything. From there, a wonderful journey began, with consecutive, beautiful and convincing victories, and the second final in history for Paris.

After the 4-2 victory against his friend Guardiola's team, on the eve of the Ligue 1 match against Lens, he said something special: "I remember an extraordinary photo from the Champions League final in Berlin, when Xana planted a Barcelona flag. I want to do the same with Paris Saint-Germain. My daughter will not be there physically, but she will be there spiritually."

It seemed like a phrase to remember a little girl who left this world at only 9 years old, but as the finale reached its climax, that phrase became almost prophetic.

The flag planted by Luis Enrique and Xana after the 2015 Champions League final

"She still sees us"! Luis Enrique and the dream of the Champions

There are very few public images of little Xana, and they all relate to the Champions League final that Barcelona played against Juventus in Paris, in 2015. Barcelona, ​​​​led by Luis Enrique, won 3-1 and lifted the trophy for the fifth time (and so far the last). After the medals were awarded, there were big celebrations on the pitch, and Xana also arrived, who, after hugging and kissing her father, received a giant Barcelona flag. The two of them did a lap of the Saint Denis field before carrying the flag in the center of the field. A sight that, when you see it now, gives you chills.

Luis Enrique's memory: "Xana is always with us"

Luis Enrique is always very focused on his work and the present, but he has not forgotten and will never forget his daughter, Xana, who he also spoke about in a documentary that came out last October. Even there, the former Roma and Spain coach was not at all banal. Remembering her, even talking about his daughter, he said: "You ask me if I can be called lucky or unlucky? I consider myself lucky, very lucky. When I say this, many say to me: 'How is that possible? Your daughter died when she was only 9 years old'. But my daughter Xana lived with us for 9 wonderful years. And we have thousands of memories, videos, extraordinary things about her."

Words that many have found surprising, but that explain exactly what kind of person Luis Enrique is, who added: "My mother didn't want to have photos of Xana. One day I came home and said: 'Mom, why don't you have any photos of Xana?' She answered me: 'I can't'. I said: 'Mom, you have to put photos of her, Xana is alive, she is not here on the physical plane, but she is in the spiritual one. Every day we talk about her, we laugh and remember, I believe she still sees us'."


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