Andres Iniesta interview: Barcelona Legend says that the head of PSG Luis Enrique is a special coach with a unique talent | Football news

“On a personal level these are special achievements,” says Andres Iniesta Sky Sports. He invites his player awards for the 2010 World Cup finals, the 2012 European Championship finals and the 2012 Champions League final. You think?

This is the closest one to come to talk. This is part of the reason why the legendary midfielder is Barcelona and Spain so loved. In an era where courage seems to prevail in so many layers of life, its underrated genius remains.

Even his winner of the 116th minute in that World Cup final was dedicated not to his glory, but by the memory of the other. Iniesta’s discovery of shirts honored her friend, Captain Espanyol Dani Jarque, who passed away after a heart attack in the previous summer.

His second triptych had neither naked nor assist. Iniest, late replacement Juan Mata even scored within a minute in Spain expressed in a 4-0 victory over Italy in 2012. It was still obvious that Iniesta was an extraordinary player of the game.

The 106 goals record in 1016 professional football matches reveals something about his longevity, but, for an offensive midfielder, he barely hints at the level of his influence and tells us nothing about why this man has shone in the biggest moments.

How did he manage to produce in those finals? Maybe it is that he raised the level, intervening when it demanded that these games focus on the path. Or maybe others dropped the level under intense pressure, while he was able to maintain his own.

Is there any explanation for that? “Well, it’s a little bit of everything,” Iniesta explains. “It is that responsibility, that mentality, the desire to play in these types of matches, that trust in yourself, the determination to do your job.”

He pauses. “Fortunately, I had the opportunity to win those finals.”

Perhaps. But he also created those opportunities.

He did the most significant by inserting this World Cup winner in South Africa. But there was also a passage before he started the Ruta Italy two years later, and then the assists for the starting goal against Juventus in the finals of that finals of the Berlin champion.

“They are special matches because you never play in these situations normally, but you are also trying to do it in a natural way, the same routine, the same things, so you do not put more pressure on yourself,” he adds. Handling by pressing the finals would seem key.

Football maybe just as important. “Above all, enjoy that moment, enjoy people, remember your family, people who always support you.” Can it not weigh someone? Not in the world of Iniesta. “The moment is very happy.”

Iniesta speaks Sky Sports In Munich as part of his role as Ambassador FedEx, sponsors of the UEFA Champions League. His role, as someone who is so often delivered in great moments, is literally to deliver the trophy to the Bavarian host city.

He was well received by crowds, still appreciated. Although, from the field, he in the spotlight reduces a slightly unpleasant figure and wonders how he finds a pension since he finally called the time in his long career in the fall. Iniesta has turned 41 this month.

But it remains closely related to the game. Still Barcelona fan, he talks about Lamina Yamal and his “unique talent”, while admitted that he is interested in Paris Saint-Germain in the finals in the finals because of his friends at PSG.

Iniesta has history with both clubs. The last time Inter raised the trophy was in 2010, when the flank of Jose Mourinho beat Barca Pep Guardiola in the tense semifinals. Iniesta missed both legs due to injury. “It was difficult to accept at the time,” he admits.

This side of Barca may be considered the biggest ever, winning the Champions League in the season before and the season after. But a cloud of volcanic ash forced them to travel by bus to Milan on their first leg. “Things happen in football you can’t control.”

As for PSG, these memories are more comfortable, although after they lost 4-0 in Paris in 2017. “That was difficult. But the return was one of those crazy matches.” Barca won 6-1 at Camp Nou to make progress. “It was one of those nights you will always remember.”

Luis Enrique was Barcelona’s coach that day and one of the aforementioned friends to whom Iniesta refers to who is now in the French club. The winning of the Champions League with the other side would help to strengthen his legacy – the inherited Iniesta believed is deserved.

“He is a special coach. I knew him as a teammate and as a coach, and he has a unique talent. He is an amazing worker. He knows how to convey his ideas to others, know how to convince. And he has very clear ideas about how he wants to play.”

Of course, the same could be said about Iniesta. Today, after retirement, he puts his energy in his academy and what is called “Iniesta methodology”. Basically, this focuses on the importance of developing not only better players but also better people.

“I think football is a spectacular way to do it,” he says. “I had the opportunity to make a football career career and this is a way of transferring that path and his values ​​to the youngest. Young boys and girls who grow up now, they are the future.”

Iniesta -sing playing days are in the past. And yet, he endures as a symbol. Physically, he was neither the fastest nor strongest. He was mentally open to his battles with depression and anxiety. But he showed us all that there was another way to win.

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