Diego Simeone
, coach of
Atlético de Madrid
, explained this Saturday that his "contract" with the rojiblanco club until 2024 "depends a lot" on how the team ends the season, with qualifying for the Champions League as a key factor, and reviewed that "each end" of the campaign meets with the leaders to see how they are doing, with which "this year will not be the exception."
Is your intention to continue beyond this season?
"It is that considering a situation as simple as you explain it is related to a lot of things. There is a contract that is related to my continuity or not, there is obviously a season finale that we always get together from, thank God, always meet the objectives,
so they will find out when the season ends what will happen
", he replied at a press conference after the team's training session on the eve of the visit to Osasuna.
Diego Simeone has a contract with Atlético de Madrid until June 30, 2024, although there is a clause that would reduce the compensation in the event that the rojiblanco team does not enter the Champions League places and the club decides to do without the coach at the end of the course.
El Cholo has been in charge of Atlético de Madrid for 12 seasons.
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El Cholo has been on the bench of the club from the Spanish capital since December 23, 2011 and has already led the team for 12 seasons.
He won the Europa League twice, was champion of the European Super Cup twice, managed to win the Spanish League in two seasons,
beating the two giants Barcelona and Real Madrid, lifted a Copa del Rey and a Spanish Super Cup.
Eight titles in 12 years.
He is the most winning coach in the club's history.
It is not the first crisis that Simeone faces at Aleti, but until now he has always been able to reverse the image.
The elimination of the Copa del Rey against Real Madrid this Thursday is the new trigger for criticism.
This Sunday the Cholo team will face Osasuna and the coach explained that he behaves "as always".
"
From our work and what we usually do as a way of life
, personally, but at work, when one gives everything, when one works as a result of a specific game like the other day and we play as we could, as we work and As we search, you remain in peace, because you did what you have to do," he said.
Cholo Simeone thinks of Osasuna, this Sunday's rival.
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"
I am at peace, with the peace of mind of having played a great game that, due to certain circumstances, was not on our side
and I congratulate the rival for getting through the phase", declared the coach, who insisted "game by game, more than never", with the first stop against Osasuna in El Sadar.
"There is a long second round left and we will finish with an opponent who is enthusiastic, with a great job from the coach, very regular in his time in Osasuna, always competitive, always with difficult and complex matches. They have that positive energy that takes you to be in the semifinals, surely it will rotate, as it has done in almost every game, because it has guys committed to the idea it has, and we to take the game where we believe we can do damage and continue in the line that we are behaving ", he added.
Simeone explained that his players are
"surely tired, with significant stress"
after extra time against Real Madrid last Thursday in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals and "seeking that the team can respond well to the four and quarter of the afternoon that we have to play".
look too
Copa del Rey: Atlético de Madrid won it with a goal made in Scaloneta but Real advanced to the semifinals after a perfect extension
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