{"id":8525,"date":"2025-05-31T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/luis-enrique-dedicates-champions-title-to-his-daughter-xana-with-an-emotional-gesture\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T17:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:45:42","slug":"luis-enrique-dedicates-champions-title-to-his-daughter-xana-with-an-emotional-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/luis-enrique-dedicates-champions-title-to-his-daughter-xana-with-an-emotional-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Enrique dedicates Champions title to his daughter Xana with an emotional gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique paid an emotional tribute to his late daughter, Xana, after winning the Champions League final on Saturday. He did so by wearing a shirt that showed them planting a club flag together.<\/p><p>Luis Enrique had already won the Champions League, achieving the treble with Barcelona in 2015. On that occasion, Xana, who was then five years old, planted a large Bar\u00e7a flag on the field.<\/p>Xana passed away in August 2019, at the age of nine, after a five-month battle against bone cancer.<p>On Saturday in Munich, Germany, after his PSG team starred in the most uneven Champions League final in history with a 5-0 victory over Inter Milan, Luis Enrique changed his shirt to honor that moment.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"false\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luis Enrique&#8217;s tribute to his daughter Xana \ud83e\udd7a\u2764\ufe0f<br><br>After winning the Champions League final, he wore a shirt with a picture of them planting a flag together. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vBwUqg8J7F\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vBwUqg8J7F<\/a><\/p>\u2014 ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1928925652054351937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/figure><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I have an incredible photo of her planting a Barcelona flag on the field.<\/p><cite>Luis Enrique<\/cite><\/blockquote>In January, the coach stated: &#8220;I want to be able to do the same with a PSG flag. My daughter will not be there in a physical sense, but she will be spiritually, and that is very important to me.&#8221;<p>After the trophy presentation ceremony, the fans unfurled a tifo depicting Luis Enrique planting a PSG flag next to Xana.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique paid an emotional tribute to his late daughter, Xana, after winning the Champions League final on Saturday. He did so by wearing a shirt that showed them planting a club flag together. Luis Enrique had already won the Champions League, achieving the treble with Barcelona in 2015. On that occasion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[270,705,706,3253],"class_list":{"0":"post-8525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-luis-enrique","10":"tag-psg","11":"tag-xana"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}