2023-05-23 20:56:15
The Atlético de Madrid coach has appeared today at a press conference on the occasion of this Wednesday’s match against Espanyol, although the main issue has been racism, after the incidents on Sunday in Valencia around Vinicius. Simeone has stated that he believes that these events are a opportunity to improve.
«It is seen that these situations are already continuous. Let’s not put a person or a shirt, it is a much deeper situation, we are almost always talking about boys of 19, 20, 23, 24 years, not older people. Young guys who possibly don’t even know what they’re doing. Socially it is much deeper than what happens in the stadium. I have no doubt that the people who are trained to solve it are a great opportunity to say enough is enough, that’s as far as we go. And you live this way. In Spain we all get used to living in a very good way and we have to continue that way. And those who do not want to will have to be punished accordingly for what they do », he reflected.
“You have to be careful because from the stadium it goes onto the street”
The Argentine has been a coach in Spain for more than eleven years and before that he spent more than seven seasons as a footballer and considers that Spain is not a racist country: “In no way. These situations appear because we are publicly exposed, because it is seen with the cameras, but it also happens in the street and you have to be careful because it goes from the stadium to the street. It’s a social issueof young people, and young people must be taken care of because they are the future».
Simeone has also been questioned if one of his players, Diego Costa, He also experienced similar situations due to his character, which generated the anger of the public. And they have asked him about the risk of trying to excuse the attitudes of the stands for the behavior of certain players.
“With Real Madrid much more is generated”
«I do not justify anything and I do not focus on what happened the other day in Valencia. Let’s get out of this punctual situation, It’s something much deeper, much broader, because it has been happening before. But because it happened with Real Madrid, much more is exposed and everything that is being generated is generated much more. But you see it, what happens in different places, in different situations, with the goalkeepers, with the referees, with the linesmen, with the coaches… You see it”, the rojiblanco coach concluded on this matter.
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