"Failure is not knowing how many teams are in UCL" - Fuming Luis Enrique responds to journalist

Luis Enrique doesn't take too kindly to the word failure. The PSG coach, at the press conference ahead of Sunday's Ligue 1 game against Toulouse, lashed out at a journalist who asked him if his side had been a failure by not reaching the Champions League final after being knocked out in the semi-finals by Borussia Dortmund. 

"I imagine you must have translated perfectly because you're a top translator, I know. So the word failure was uttered here?" he asked the translator. "Yes...", the coach replied grimly. When it was confirmed that the journalist had referred to the term he so dislikes, the Spaniard lashed out at the reporter.

"How many teams are there in the Champions League?" he asked the journalist, to whom he alluded directly with three references: "The one who asks the question. The one with the failure. The one with the headphones.

"Don't you know how many teams play in the Champions League? And you ask what failure is?" he asked the reporter after his silence. "Maybe failure is not having studied how many teams are in the Champions League". "Well, let's move on to the next question and avoid a problem," concluded Luis Enrique.

 

May 11, 2024