GOLDEN DAWN FOR PSG

Paris Saint-Germain humiliate Inter 5-0, seal 1st-ever Champions League trophy

- ASSOCIATED PRESS

Paris Saint-Germain, Champions League winner.

At long last the club that was transformed by Qatari billions and bought and sold a succession of the world's greatest players in an extravagant bid to get to the top has got its hands on the big one.

European club soccer's grandest prize has a new home after PSG thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 in Saturday's final in Munich.

It was the trophy that not even Lionel Messi, Neymar or Kylian Mbappe could deliver to the French club. Coach Luis Enrique has achieved it after overseeing PSG's shift from the era of galactico signings to one of genuine team-building.

Fitting then that Désiré Doué, the 19-year-old French forward, emblematic of the club's new generation, was the chief inspiration and player of the match as PSG recorded the biggest win in a final in the competition's 70-year history. In a scintillating performance, Doué scored two goals and set up another goal in little over an hour on the field before being substituted.

Achraf Hakimi, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and substitute Senny Mayulu all scored around Doue's double in a game in which PSG could have run out an even bigger winner.