Sportskeeda Football Awards 2016: Manager of the Year 2016

#5 Luis Enrique: Total Score = 13 (Experts pick 7, Fans vote 2)

Luis Enrique addresses the Camp Nou faithful as Barcelona celebrate a tough League win

When you coach a team that has Luis Suarez, Neymar Jr. and Lionel Messi in attack & Andres Iniesta, Arda Turan and Ivan Rakitic as the supporting cast, you don’t often get enough credit for the successes of the team. But Luis Enrique has done remarkably well at Barcelona to let his players do what they do best – run riot, score a million goals, and win games.

He has an insane 77% Win record with the Blaugrana having won 114 games in 148 and this year his Barcelona side walked away with the Copa Del Rey and kept their calm during a nail-biting finish to the league to come away winners. Their Champions League campaign was rather disappointing, though, and he will be looking to make amends this time around.

He explained the secret of his success in a rare interview with FourFourTwo – “ I’ve always been enthusiastic about whatever I’ve done. I mark out challenges in life. I was lucky that I was able to dedicate my life to what I most loved: as a fan, a player and now as a manager. It must be terrible to work in something that you don’t like. Because I am so passionate, it’s easy to empathize with players and for them to believe in me.”