Season 1, Episode 2: Xana (Mythologically mean: divine/power)
Having lost at home to Barça the version of PSG which Luis Enrique has been building erupts in a masterful display of football in Barcelona destroying Xavi's team and reaching the Champions League last four.
All Lucho's detailed tactical analysis and strategic planning pay off spectacularly well, (which he shares with us via exclusive footage) and now the Paris fans acclaim the Asturian 54 year old as their spiritual leader - the guru who can guide them to self-respect, pride and, potentially, European glory.
In the background, Catalan fans and media are angered by his victory celebrations. Now it's Dortmund again, that thorny rival from the 'group of death', and bad times are in store. Are PSG cursed? Or was it just fate that they hit the goal frame SO many times across the two games.
But the most intense and moving parts of these three episodes are how Luis Enrique puts this experience, and life's vicissitudes, in context by explaining how he and his family coped, adapted, and became even more united following the illness and eventual death in 2019 of little Xana - Luis and Elena's younger daughter.
"She was incredible. Very competitive, brave, funny... she was just like her dad". An intimate, sad yet uplifting way to end these episodes as Lucho and family remember Xana's life and launch a foundation in her memory.
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