I have told the story several times. Months ago I went to the Metropolitan, left the press box and infiltrated the stands with a good friend. During the game and in a sector full of members, a man over forty stood up from his chair for fifteen minutes shouting: “Simeone, you bastard…”. I looked at my friend, grabbed his shoulder and said, “Anyone can come in here.” As the man continued to insult Cholo, I got up from my seat and went over to try and explain to him that he had the right to criticize the coach, his changes, his lineup, his style of play, or whatever he wanted. criticize, but that I could not understand how an Atlético de Madrid fan could spend half a game lying to the mother of the man who gave so many years of happiness and glory to the club and the fan. The man listened to me, looked me up and down, didn’t answer and took his place. At the last moment he got up, walked over to the vomit, took the path of the stairs and called again: “Simeone, son of a p…”. My friend looked at me and said in a serious tone. “Uria, you’re right in the end. Anyone can come in here.’ If Diego Pablo is guilty of something simeon It’s about getting Atleti fans excited by taking a handful of titles and a string of victories, and making possible what almost everyone thought was impossible. If Cholo is guilty of anything, it is regaining the lost identity and pride of Atlético de Madrid fans, when that club was a ‘Titanic’ crashed for the umpteenth time and an easy joke in the office every Monday for years Has been . If the man in black is guilty of anything, it’s that he built, structured and established a team from scratch that was pitiful and dragged, until it became a big team whose secret was to fight like a little one. If Simeone is guilty of anything, it’s that he supported the club during the best ten years in its history and that for a year and a half he was unable to stop the team’s decline, while the mediocre ignore that only those who are arrived fall At the top.
And Simeone, although he has been wrong a million times and a million more times wrong, is the best thing that has happened to Atleti in its more than a hundred year history.
You have to demand everything from Simeone, because he always gives it. You must ask Simeone everything, because no one ever asks anything from others. Simeone should be blamed when nothing works because he made everything work. The maximum can and may be asked of Simeone, because for ten years he has devoted himself with heart and soul to making Atleti great while others make him smaller. Simeone can be criticized for a change, a signing, an alignment, an attitude, a sentence or even an entire press conference. Even someone who doesn’t know how to add or feels like doing it can discuss his career with him. Simeone, because everyone Atleti feels or suffers as he pleases, can be whistled even from the most frank resentment or even from the most overwhelming consistency of someone who never, wins or loses, communicates with his football. What is neither head nor tail is to ask the fans to sing his name, who support their team’s coach and who recognize who has been the architect of the best years in Atleti’s history. Nobody asks for ovations for Simeone, nobody asks for songs for Cholo, nobody asks for unanimous support, and nobody asks for applause for a coach if you don’t like that coach. What is needed, what is needed is not to lose respect for the person who has given you so much. First for consistency. Second, out of gratitude. And thirdly, to avoid the worst thing that can happen to anyone in life: that the memory be filled with oblivion. Simeone is not perfect, although his results may seem so. Simeone is not God, although the “cholistas” are a cult. Simeone is no bigger than Atleti because no one is essential. And Simeone, like all people in this world, is wrong. What is wrong is jeering at those who sing for Simeone. What is useless is insulting or disrespecting Simeone. First, because it is to make greasy broth for the “nacionalmadridismo” media that has been pointing to his sleep for years. And second, because it goes against someone from your own family. One of them, who is part of the “cholista” sect, demands no unconditional support, no unanimous applause, nor that people believe in Simeone. Not even the recognition the character deserves for his achievements. All that is demanded is a minimum of respect and decency for the one who has returned your lost greatness.
To insult Simeone while he is from Atleti is like a Real Madrid player insulting Florentino. To be from Atleti and insult Simeone is like to be from Barca and insult Messi. Valdano says that if you don’t like Messi, you don’t like football. And whoever writes this believes that whoever offends Simeone does not love Atleti.
Source: Goal