08/13/2020 - 20:13
- Clarín.com
- sports
Just a little while after the blow that Leipzig gave his Atlético de Madrid in Lisbon, Diego Simeone began to be the center of criticism from different Spanish media. The elimination of the Champions League in the quarterfinals to a single match hurt and will continue to hurt for a long time the Argentine coach who revolutionized the Madrid team. And the press hit him hard.
The cover of Marca newspaper is the spiciest. "Racanería is paid," reads below the image of Cholo clutching his head. Someone rácano - a term often used in Spain - is mean, tie up. This important sports media in Spain blamed the Argentine DT for his conservative approach and highlighted: "New hit in Lisbon from Simeone's team, which was inferior to its rival and did not show its favorite poster. Sensation of a great lost opportunity. Joao Félix , alternate, the best ".
In its digital version, he also had no mercy and dedicated a separate space to it. In a note entitled "El Cholo, a lion caged ... and defeated", he describes that the coach lived the game energetically as usual and sentenced: "His obsession with the Champions League multiplies his already very high intensity when the Orejona it is glimpsed on the horizon. The Leipzig thing becomes part of the gallery of horrors of cholismo . A stick that will not be forgotten. "
Marca's main title, very hard against Simeone.
As, the other sports newspaper in Madrid, titled on its website: "Atleti lives another drama." Meanwhile, in the sports section of ABC they published: "Simeone is stuck in the quarterfinals. Atlético, with their elimination against Leipzig, has three seasons without being able to overcome that round."
The Catalan medium Sport dedicated its paper cover this Friday to the duel that Barcelona will play against Bayern Munich. But he made a mention of the elimination of Simeone's team: "Atlético's KO!" , it reads in a lower box. For its part, Mundo Deportivo titled: "Atlético's Mazazo, which ended his dream of Champions".
It is clear: Simeone's style does not fall sympathetic in part of Spanish sports journalism and with each stumble the sticks for him and his driving flourish. And this fall, particularly painful and unexpected when it seemed that the Champions League could be at hand, could not be the exception to that rule.
The cover of the Sport newspaper this Friday focuses on Messi's Barcelna and dedicates less space to the elimination of Atlético del Cholo Simeone.
