Luis Enrique crowned men's coach of the year

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More success for PSG with recognition at the 2025 Ballon d’Or ceremony 

Paris Saint-Germain manager Luis Enrique was awarded the Johan Cruyff Trophy for best male coach at the 2025 Ballon d’Or ceremony in Paris.

Author | Sophie T

Enrique oversaw a historic 2024-25 campaign as PSG secured the French league, Coupe de France, a maiden UEFA Champions League title and the UEFA Super Cup. 

He achieved this for the second time in his career, previously doing so with Barcelona in the 2014-15 season. He joins Pep Guardiola, who has also done this twice. 

Enrique could not attend the ceremony as he was in Marseille for the postponed Ligue 1 clash,  but thanked his team for all their support in a pre-recorded message.

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In this message, he said: “Thank you to my family, thank you to PSG. I also want to thank two special people: Nasser Al-Khelaifi (PSG chairman) and Luís Campos (PSG sporting director). We have a special relationship. A message to my players who are there: it’s nice to win individual awards, but I think the most important thing is the recognition of the fans."

How Enrique rebuilt PSG

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Paris Saint-Germain’s path to their long-awaited Champions League triumph last season truly began when the final emblem of the club’s “bling bling” years departed.

Kylian Mbappé’s move to Real Madrid in 2024 brought an end to the superstar attacking trident that had once featured Neymar and Lionel Messi, closing a chapter defined as much by glamour as by frustration. In its place came a recalibration, with Luis Enrique entrusted to steer PSG in a new direction.

Those inside the club described him as a “footballing architect”, and he lived up to that billing. The Spaniard persuaded president Nasser al-Khelaifi and football advisor Luis Campos that he could mould a younger, hungrier and more cohesive team in the post-Mbappé era.

What followed was a transformation few anticipated. Fuelled by the brilliance of emerging talents such as 19-year-old Désiré Doué and the dazzling Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, PSG became something they had long aspired to be but never quite achieved: a side defined by collective purpose rather than individual star power. Guided by Luis Enrique, whose own career has been shaped by both profound tragedy and remarkable triumph, they emerged as one of European football’s most uplifting stories.

Location: Paris, France

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