Marti Cifuentes

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Football Daily · Euro Leagues: UCL Final set and Marti Cifuentes on his career · 7 May 2026 podcast

I think that probably the most important or biggest challenge that as a manager we have when we arrive to a new club is to set the culture and to be aligned in the culture.

I definitely think that Luis Enrique has the personality and a clear philosophy on how he wants to work.

But anyway, it takes time.

So probably his first season was not easy.

And instead, perhaps last year, this season, we can see that he's feeling like probably this is his team in terms of all of the players playing at really high level of intensity, understanding.

Because the level of those rotations that we speak, obviously Luis Enrique is a coach that comes as well from the position of

play for school.

So it's a lot of fluidity, it's a lot of rotation.

And that requires not only just the theory, but the game understanding.

And this is as well about the egos at the end, because the players, they need to understand that, okay, my teammate is here, now I need to do this, because that's the best for the team.

And that's exactly what, in my opinion, we can see at this moment with this team.

Definitely one of the best feelings when you, as a manager, you feel that you convince everyone to work for each other, that the whole team has the same idea, the same target.

That's the definition by teamwork, right?

I think the credit, obviously, to the whole organization, but I have good friends in PSG as well.

And I think the transition from that model years ago, when it was about signing perhaps the best players, but that doesn't make you always the best team.

And instead now you can see top, top players and many of them are best crawling the wall as well.

I'm not saying that there is not the same quality, but it's definitely a team that works with, yeah, like a symphony, right?

Everybody knows what they need to do in the pitch.

I think from a tactical point of view, the way they build up, for instance, when they are slightly high on the pitch, it's very interesting because usually it's what we call a structure of three plus one with Vitinha on the base, with three players, one of the fullbacks or higher, but that's extremely fluid.

And that changed.

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