Lionel Messi has known many coaches at FC Barcelona, from Pep Guardiola to Luis Enrique via Koeman. And everything has not always been simple between number 10 and the technicians, starting with the current PSG coach, who has shaken up Messi and his habits. Frank Rijkaard’s former assistant at Barça, Eusebio Sacristan, describes how the two men learned to live together.
“Luis Enrique is the other coach with whom he won everything at Barça, but between the two, it wasn’t easy at the start. Luis arrived in Barcelona in 2014 with his principles, as always: “I like this and not that, and we do it my way.” Messi replied: “No, we do it my way.” Luis Enrique even sat him on the sidelines (against Real Sociedad), which almost led to his dismissal. He finally had the intelligence to understand that he had to adapt his vision to that of Messi”remembers Sacristan in the columns of So Foot.
