The Champions League game between PSG and Barcelona will pit Laurent Blanc against Luis Enrique , two coaches who played together at Barcelona during the 1996/97 season. They both joined Barça at roughly the same time to play under the late, great Sir Bobby Robson and they played 33 games together. They won the Spanish Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners Cup, but lost out in the league. Blanc then left the Catalans to join Olympique de Marseille. 17 years later, the Frenchman and the Spaniard will face each other across the dugouts in the Champions League. We played a season together. He was a world-class player and we got on well. He was a top player. Hes already shown himself to be a more than capable coach, Luis Enrique said of Blanc at a press conference several days ago. Coincidentally, the Barça boss also played alongside Frank de Boer at the Camp Nou and the Dutchman is now the first-team coach at Ajax, who were also drawn alongside Barça in Champions League Group F.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:32:44 +0000
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