Javier Zanetti is one of Diego Pablo Simeone’s best friends as well as Inter Milan’s vice president of sports. He welcomed Cholo, his flamboyant home on the exclusive Lake Como, on more than one occasion and offered to coach him often right there. neuroazurro. They say that when his friend decides to step in, there is always a contract drawn up for Simeone in his office.

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The coach is going through tough times surrounded by an atmosphere of apocalypse after the Champions League elimination and defeat in Cádiz. “Every season is one of those moments that you have to experience sooner or later. At the demand of a coach from day to day and more athletic. That’s how it should be, and that’s how Cholo understands it,” they warn from their environment. Iron from the club was also removed from the issue, and a press said, “He needs to create controversy and do more at Atletico because he is interested in covering up the misery of others.” The reality, however, is that the rojiblanca community has polarized between those who remember being worse at any time before Simeone and those who denounced Cholo’s wear on the bench.

Next 23 December will mark the eleventh anniversary of his arrival as head coach at Atletico. Eleven years and won eight titles (two Leagues, two Europa Leagues, two European Super Cups, a King’s Cup and a Spanish Super Cup). This makes him the most successful coach in bed history. Which, by the way, explains why he’s the highest paid coach in the world. The sporting and commercial re-evaluation of an Atletico that came hiding under the sewers has a lot to do with Simeone’s looks. at your bank.

The truth is, the panorama is very different, as the street and media debate whether the ‘cholismo’ scene is exhausted at the Metropolitano, at the club and on the field. Cholo has a contract until 30 June 2024 and work is ongoing to extend this relationship until 2026. The coach likes the forward-thinking work of the club because it removes doubts and creates a shared roadmap for the fans and the team to stay on the same path. direction. Miguel Angel Gil Marin and Enrique Cerezo They have no doubts about the coach, and the person responsible for closing these talks is Diego Pablo’s older sister and manager, Natalia Simeone. He is someone who manages negotiation times with a high strategic understanding to communicate renewals to his team at appropriate times. And now it doesn’t seem appropriate.

Simeone assumes he is like a reed that bends but always stands. After a draw with Leverkusen in the Champions League, he repeated his mix: “I am headstrong and will continue to insist as long as I have a chance to be at this club to get the Champions League that we missed.” Sensing that Carrasco’s sentence was just another scar, like Griezmann’s in Lisbon or Juanfran’s in Milan, I warned him. And he added a message for sailors: “A great Spanish writer used to say: “I don’t care what they think of me.” I think the same. I know what I give, I know how I give myself”.

Few people represent the irreducible spirit of athletes better than Simeone. Given badly, his collaborators say: the technician always hums with a smile your favorite verses From Sabina and Leiva’s last ‘athleticada’: “Don’t talk to me about resistance… This is my Atleti de Madrid… Don’t come to me with regrets… I’m talking about survival… And keep crowning the mountains… And keep conquering the stairs…”. Zanetti will have to keep waiting because no one will be able to get Cholo out of there. Match match. And the first is against Porto with the Europa League as a necessary evil to correct the bad start of this turbulent season.