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Simeone can with everyone

2020-08-13T09:27:58.770Z


The Argentine wants to make history in the resumption of the Champions League. His past confirms that the Argentine does not understand the impossible. Coaches have been passing, but he endures ...


By

Eduardo Cornago

Simeone wants to make history in the resumption of the Champions League. His past confirms that the Argentine does not understand the impossible. He arrived at Atlético in January 2012 at a difficult time after the team's elimination against Albacete in the Copa del Rey. The truth is that in less than six months that same team was raising the Europa League. That was the prelude to a long list of feats that make him one of the best coaches in history. Because Simeone likes his club so much that when the greats of LaLiga bet on changes, he always followed. This is his ninth season and it doesn't look like his goodbye is going to be close. At 50 years old, he has already shown that the claw is his identity mark. But it is far from the only one: heart, pride, passion, tension ... The list is almost endless.

Today begins the final stretch to get the Champions League. A Champions that resists her and that her closest environment confesses that she will end up raising. Time will tell, but against Leipzig Atlético have the opportunity to be in the semifinals and having Simeone in these games is life insurance. The tie against Liverpool was the germ of what can end in something historic. All the teams that have won the 'Orejona' have staged comebacks as epic as that. 

Simeone, the 'veteran' of LaLiga

No one. Absolutely nobody. No current LaLiga coach has been on the bench for as long as Simeone. Since its arrival to the present, more than 90 new technicians have passed in Primera. If we add the coaches from Madrid, Barça, Seville, Valencia, we find that more than 35 technicians have left their post. The coach who planted the most 'shadow' in terms of duration was Paco Jémez: the canary spent four consecutive seasons at Rayo.

Focusing on the eternal rival, when Simeone arrives he meets Mourinho. The Portuguese stage opens the opportunity to Ancelotti, who is two seasons and in one of them with Zidane second. Benítez's failure was also seen by a Simeone who had to applaud Zidane's golden cycle and his short goodbye. Because after Lopetegui and Solari, the Frenchman returned. In short, the Argentine has experienced the last 7 great changes on the white bench in situ. From the farewell of Mou, to the start of second of Zidane, without forgetting the Champions ...

Oldest coaches on the same team

TECHNICALEQUIPMENT
Guy rouxAuxerre (42 years)
Ronnie McFallPortadown (29 years)
FergusonManchester United (27 years)
WengerArsenal (21 years)
Foppe de HaanHeerenveen (17 years)
Iuri HodichinDinamo Bender (16 years old)
Valery LobanobskDynamo Kiev (16 years)
Thomas schaffWerder Bremen (14 years old)
Miguel MunozReal Madrid (14 years)

Cholo has seven titles, no one achieved more than him at Atlético

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FJDíaz

Simeone is the Atlético coach who has won the most titles. El Cholo has won seven titles since he arrived at the entity eight years ago. Then began a glorious stage in the Madrid entity. In January 2012 he took the reins of Atlético and that same season he won the Europa League. He did it against Athletic, in Bucharest, on a great night for Falcao. Shortly after, he won the European Super Cup in what many consider Atlético's best European match. The Cholo team defeated a Chelsea 1-4 that could not do anything against Falcao, once again imperial, and company.

But the trophy that changed everything was the conquest of the Copa del Rey in the 2012-13 season. On May 17, 2013 Atlético left behind years of hardship and suffering against Real Madrid. Miranda's goal is already in the history of the entity. Atlético understood that they could give any team a war. That triumph was a before and after in the entity.

In the 2013-14 season, the Madrid team took the league title, with a match against Barcelona that is part of the entity's legend. Godín scored with his head and gave the Madrid club the title, the tenth in its history. Disappointment came in Lisbon when they couldn't win the Champions League, but the team soon recovered and won the Spanish Super Cup against Real Madrid. A minor title, although with Madrid in between it cannot be considered such.

In 2017-18, Atlético, which had a bad qualifying phase in the Champions League, won the Europa League. They faced Marseille in the final, in a match in which Fernando Torres was able to win a title with the team of his life. And the European revenge against Madrid came with the dispute of the European Super Cup in Tallinn. The rojiblancos won on a great night for Diego Costa and Atlético was proclaimed European super champion.

"Simeone is pure claw".

Diego Forlan

"Simeone is synonymous with spectacular work."

Lionel messi

"Simeone is family".

Antoine Griezmann

"Simeone is one of the best coaches in the world."

Burn Turan

"Simeone and Atlético are a machine."

Jurgen Klopp

"I admire Simeone. He is perfect for this Atlético."

Jose Mourinho

Simeone, from hero on the field to legend on the bench

By

Sergio peaks

Simeone only needs to win the Champions League. He lost two finals but keeps trying. He also lost another final, the Spanish Super Cup, against Real Madrid, and again on penalties. El Cholo wants to continue increasing his record. Luis Aragonés got six titles. The two, along with Marcel Domingo, are the only rojiblancos to have won the league title as a player and coach.

On December 23, 2011 the history of Atlético changed. The new project, without Agüero and Forlán and with Falcao, Arda or Diego as new leaders, did not start and the elimination of the Cup against Albacete (2nd B) became the sentence for Manzano. There came the bet on Cholo Simeone as a coach, an old hero on the field, but whose experience on the bench in Europe was little, with only six months in Italian Catania. His role in Argentine Racing supported him, but in River he had had ups and downs, participating in the title but also in relegation.

A decision that in its day accumulated doubts and that has become the most transcendental success of the club, at least in modern history. Simeone, one of the leaders of the Double, landed convinced that he was the ideal one to revive a team full of talent but that did not represent the word team. Cholo did not seek to stretch the affection that he had earned among the fans for his dedication and passion as a footballer, but to enforce his philosophy on the bench. "We like an aggressive, strong, fierce, counter-attacking team. What led the Atléticos to identify with this glorious shirt," he explained in his presentation in what would be the prelude to more than eight extraordinary years.

Aware that to reach the goal you had to go step by step, match by match has represented one of the brightest stages of Atlético and a Simeone who has formed an ideal symbiosis with everything that Atleti represents. Few times in the history of football has a tier reached such a communion with a coach as what has happened with Cholo: a rojiblanco fan on the pitch with the mentality of a Spartan and the intelligence of the best strategist. The red and white color runs through the blood of Simeone, who has formed a binomial with Atlético that is already infinite.

Source: elparis

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