While his team was leading 5-0 in the Champions League final, Luis Enrique’s “second”, Rafel Pol, broke out.
Rafel Pol cried during the final
In the 88th minute of the Champions League final between PSG and Inter, immediately after the 5-0 goal scored by Mayulu, the video cameras focused on a character on the Parisian bank. He was standing in front of the bank alone. His eyes shone, he could not control his emotion. Rafel Pol was looking at the ground and crying. Is Luis Enrique’s coach.
You will have worked together since their time in Rome, in 2011. In addition to their careers, successes and triumphs, but they share a deep pain. Like the Spanish coach, Pol had to face the mourning: in November last year he lost his wife, Raquel.
Luis Enrique dedicated the victory against Angers, from Ligue 1, to his friend: “I am the spokesman of everyone from PSG. We want to dedicate this result to Rafel, his family and Raquel’s family“He said.
Originally from the Balearic Islands, Rafel Pol is 38 years old and is licensed in sports sciences. He started working with the Asturian coach in Rome in 2011, as a sports trainer. He followed in his subsequent experience at Celta Vigo, then at Barcelona and the national team of Spain. From 2023, he is the assistant of Luis Enrique in his new adventure at PSG.
Pol has always been a supporter of applying technology in football. “It may seem strange but the performance of a player on the field is comparable to that of an astronaut on a space trip“, Pol said, in April 2023.
“The human ability to respond to pressure or certain conditions does not distinguish between specialties. Flexibility is always necessary on both the ground and in space“, He explains. For the young second coach of PSG, the athletes are not cars:”A footballer is more of an artist than a robot”.
