The Champions League trophy is at stake in the final at Budapest on Saturday. For Paris Saint-Germain and Luis Enrique, it doesn’t end there.On the line against Arsenal for the defending champion and its serial-winning Spanish coach is the chance to stake its claim to be considered the greatest team of this era.“I arrived at the club thinking, ‘My objective is to make history,’ and we have indeed made history,” Luis Enrique said. “We want to keep writing the story because we believe there’s still more there for us to achieve.”PSG is already in the conversation when it comes to judging the finest teams to have won the title in the age of the Champions League. But sometimes cold, hard facts are required to drive the point home.
Back-to-back titles are rareVictory at Puskas Arena would see PSG become only the second team to retain the trophy since the old European Cup was rebranded as the Champions League in 1992.For many years it didn’t happen even for teams regarded as generationally great.Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona won two in three years. AC Milan and Juventus each reached three consecutive finals in the ‘90s but only won one apiece. Ajax and Manchester United took title defenses all the way to the final only to fall at the last hurdle.
