Luis Enrique has spoken about the death of his nine-year-old daughter. The Paris Saint-Germain coach became emotional.
Luis Enrique expresses his emotions in a video about the death of his nine-year-old daughter Xana from cancer five years ago. “Do I feel happy or miserable?” asks the Paris Saint-Germain football coach in a documentary on the TV channel Movistar+, apparently sitting in a kitchen-living room. “I consider myself lucky, very lucky.”
And adds: “My daughter came to live with us for nine wonderful years.” There are thousands of memories of her, for example in the form of videos, “unbelievable things,” says the 54-year-old.
In recorded video excerpts you can see Xana doing gymnastics in the garden, in others she is sitting at the piano, playing with another girl or talking happily into the camera. The former coach of the Spanish national team reports that his mother was unable to put up any photos of her granddaughter after her death.
“So I told her: Mom, you have to put some up. She’s alive – not physically, but spiritually. We talk every day, laugh with each other and remember,” Enrique continues in the video.
The former national player took up the position as national coach of the Spanish team in 2018. In 2019, he took a break for several months after Xana was diagnosed with cancer and died.
At the 2021 European Championships he reached the semi-finals with “La Roja”. After the early World Cup exit in Qatar, Enrique was not allowed to continue as Spain’s national coach in 2022; last year he joined PSG.