Javier Zanetti is, in addition to sports vice president of Inter Milan, one of Diego Pablo Simeone’s best friends. His lavish house in the exclusive Lake Como has welcomed Cholo on more than one occasion, and right there he has proposed many times to become the coach neroazurro. They say that in his office there is always a contract prepared with the name of Simeone for when his friend decides to take the step.
A bad moment
The coach is going through difficult days surrounded by an apocalyptic atmosphere after the elimination in the Champions League and the defeat in Cádiz. “It is one of those moments that you have to go through sooner or later in each season. It is the day to day of a coach and more with the demand of the Atlético. This is how it should be and this is how Cholo understands it”, they warn from their surroundings. From the club iron is also removed from the matter and a press is pointed out that “it needs to generate debate and more at Atlético because it is interested in covering up the miseries of others.” But the truth is that the rojiblanca parish lives polarized between those who remember that any time before Simeone was worse and those who denounce the wear and tear of Cholo on the bench.
There is no crueler ending for Atlético de Madrid.
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Next December 23 will be the eleventh anniversary of his arrival at Atlético as coach. Eleven years and eight titles won (two Leagues, two Europa League, two European Super Cups, one Copa del Rey and one Spanish Super Cup). Which makes him the most successful coach in mattress history. And which explains, by the way, why he is the highest paid coach in the world. The sporting and business revaluation of an Atlético that came from hiding under the sewers has a lot to do with the appearance of Simeone on your bench.
The reality is that while the street and the media debate whether the stage of ‘cholismo’ has been exhausted in the Metropolitano, in the club and on the pitch the panorama is very different. Cholo has a contract until June 30, 2024 and work is already underway to extend that relationship until 2026. The coach likes that the club works with foresight because this avoids suspicions and marks a common roadmap for the fans and the team to navigate in the same direction. Miguel Angel Gil Marin and Enrique Cerezo They have no doubts about the coach and the person in charge of closing these negotiations is Natalia Simeone, sister and agent of Diego Pablo, who manages the times of the negotiation with a high strategic sense to communicate the renewals at convenient times for the team. And now it doesn’t seem appropriate.
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Simeone presumes to be like that reed that bends, but always remains standing. After the elimination in the Champions League with the draw against Leverkusen he repeated his karma: “I’m hard-headed and I’ll keep insisting as long as I have the chance to be at this club to get the Champions League that we’re missing”. I warned him feeling that Carrasco’s penalty was another scar like Griezmann’s in Lisbon or Juanfran’s in Milan. And he added a message for navigators: “A great Spanish writer used to say: ‘I don’t care what they think of me.’ I think exactly the same. I know what I give, I know how I give myself”.
Few embody better than Simeone the irreducible spirit of the athletes. When they are badly given, their collaborators say that the technician always hums with a smile your favorite verses of the last ‘atleticada’ of Sabina and Leiva: “Don’t talk to me about resisting… It’s my Atleti de Madrid… Don’t come to me with regrets… I’m talking about surviving… And continue crowning mountains… And continue conquering stairs…”. Zanetti will have to keep waiting because nobody will get Cholo out of there. Match by match. And the first is against Porto with the Europa League as a necessary evil to correct the bad start in this tumultuous season.