Germán Adrián Ramón Burgos
or
the Burgos Monkey
, just plain.
character.
After ten years of making history with Diego Simeone at Atlético de Madrid, the former goalkeeper who emerged at Ferro, exploded at River
where he was champion of the Copa Libertadores in 1996
and made a save for the Argentine National Team in the
1998 and 2002 World Cups,
he decided make your own way as DT.
His first experience was at Newell's where he didn't do so well: 15 games led, with four losses, six draws, five losses and a slam.
Then
he went through the Aris Thessaloniki in Greece
where he won 12 of 18 games, however he also had to leave.
The goalkeeper, the rockstar, the man who overcame cancer and assembles his teams according to the signs of the players, gave an interview and left cuts everywhere.
Waiting for a call to direct again, Burgos told the Spanish sports media called Relevo
why he had not spoken to Cholo Simeone
with whom he spent a decade at Atlético de Madrid for a while: “We are friends, it does not make us It is necessary to talk if you are a real friend.
They are more than 20 years of friendship, including those eight years in the Argentine National Team, four as a player and 10 as a coach.
I wince and you know what I'm saying.
I like to be in bad times."
Despite having worked for years with a tactical animal like Cholo, Burgos revealed that the duo also
relied on the signs of the players to assemble their teams
: “It's the first thing I did.
It was my idea.
You have to look for the most compatible signs
In a group, the leaders are similar, like Scorpios and Taurus, and you need a Pisces like Godín... Then you have to observe.
To create a team Menotti said that they are small societies of 2-3-4 players, and sometimes a solitary one.
You have the happy, shy, those who only think about winning, others afraid until they face danger... There are those who bring the banana to those who ask for it, the one who stays after dinner, or plays cards, in the trips, where each one sits, who shares a room... So we profile the person to find out what they can give you, and I hold on to the sign to find out the emotional balance of the team, because I don't have anything else to hold onto " .
True to his style,
El Mono told what the difference is between being the head of the group
and being an assistant coach: "They don't bitch you in second place and I want them to insult me, I like it (laughs). The responsibility is another, you have to Being a leader at the ends of the field, if you're not, you can't put yourself under a goal either. You learn that after 500 goals, although you have to try not to get them on the same day... Why do goalkeepers continue for so many years? , like Pepe Reina? Because then the location counts, maybe you lose the take-off in the legs, but you win it with the position".
Burgos, in River's match with América de Cali for the 1996 Copa Libertadores.
In 2003, when he was making a save for Atlético de Madrid,
Germán Burgos had to leave football because he was diagnosed with kidney cancer
.
“It was something unexpected.
They come one day and tell you: you have to have surgery because it's cancer.
I had to play that weekend against Mallorca and I told the doctor: I better have surgery on Monday.
But the doctors and Luis told me that I had to operate now and we decided to do it as quickly as possible and he was right, "he said at the time.
And that bad drink happened, the Monkey, however the addiction twisted his arm and he went back to the cigarette: “I keep smoking, I came back because they are addictions, I can't deny it.
Less with this voice, that he is a semitone lower than the devil, ”he explained, after having cancer.
After having gone through two world processes with the Argentine National Team, the Monkey spoke about the title of Scaloni's team and highlighted the work of DT Scaloni: “He knew how to unite all wills and the first, Messi.
He was talking to us several times.
He is a capable, intelligent boy, he knows how to listen.
When I saw this National Team winning three championships in a row and how they celebrated in qualifying, when they all went to hug Scaloni, I said to myself: "He has them."
They protected him.
That makes the player run five meters more and play better.
With that simple gesture you already realize that the players are with the coach.
Sometimes analyzing the goal celebrations you see how the group is doing”.