Paris Saint-Germain, Champions League winner.<\/p>\n
At long last the club that was transformed by Qatari funds and bought and sold a succession of the world\u2019s greatest players in an extravagant bid to get to the top has got its hands on the big one.<\/p>\n
European club soccer\u2019s grandest prize has a new home after PSG thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 in Saturday\u2019s final in Munich.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s in the bag, it\u2019s coming home with us to Paris tomorrow,\u201d coach Luis Enrique said. \u201cMy first day at the PSG campus I said the ultimate goal was to fill the trophy cabinet. The only trophy missing was the Champions League. Here we have ticked that box.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was the trophy that not even Lionel Messi, Neymar or Kylian Mbappe could deliver to the French club. Luis Enrique has achieved it after overseeing PSG\u2019s shift from the era of galactico signings to one of genuine team-building.<\/p>\n
Fitting then that D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9, the 19-year-old French forward, emblematic of the club\u2019s new generation, was the chief inspiration and player of the match as PSG recorded the biggest win in a final in the competition\u2019s 70-year history. In a scintillating performance, Dou\u00e9 scored two goals and set up another goal in little over an hour on the field before being substituted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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