3 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
The Coach Who Took a Cursed Job and Became a European Champion
Over the past decade, coaching Paris Saint-Germain had turned into one of the most cursed jobs in sports.
Even though the club showered its managers with cash and armed them with superstar players, the bar for success seemed unattainably, impossibly high. PSG's ownership, a branch of the sovereign-wealth fund of Qatar, had made things brutally clear: It was Champions League or bust.