Simeone was very clear on the departure of Lodi and marked the field for the rest of the squad. (Press photo by Atlético de Madrid)
Diego Simeone is the current reference of Argentine coaches in European football. For more than a decade before Atletico Madrid and with a long portfolio of titles and achievements, the colos is an authorized word in the world of football and, even more so, when it comes to Argentina national teamshirt he wore in 106 games between 1988 and 2002. In this sense, He referred to how he sees the national team before the World Cup in Qatar.
“I see her in a state of joy and enthusiasm. What awakens is the confidence in them (to the point that) it doesn’t matter who she plays against, it’s what I perceive from the outside. I see it with the confidence it must have. Then it’s football and anything can happen, but it arrives in the state it needs to arrive: with the safety of the team, with the certainty of knowing what he wants to play and that it is a boost for the player and for the team, very well“he said in an interview with F90 (ESPN).
Furthermore, Simeone answered the question about a possible parallelism between the characteristics he had as a player and those he possesses. Rodrigo De Paul, who is currently one of its directors in the mattress group. “He plays a lot better than me and sees (the game) better than what I have seenI don’t know if he had more goals than me (laughs). Especially in the national team he has a special place, a leadership in football . Here we want you to live with that research. Last year started very well, had an intermittent transition and ended up being what we wanted. He is an associative player, we need him and we hope he will reach the World Cup in the best possible way, but every day he must know how to compete “, she explained.
Cholo, on the other hand, who always stresses the importance of victory in his coaching career in order to remain in office and express his ideas without problems, reiterated that the only thing that matters in football is to win. “The first thing I said to the group when I took the lead was that people want to win all the time and that the only thing that matters to him is to win. In this period we have had a fairly large regularity, with very high peaks that we were close to winning the Champions League, but in general we have been very regular. We are left with the feeling that we want more, but we know where we are and who we are competing against. It is not easy against Real Madrid, who have 14 Champions League and play the same league. Nor with Barcelona who seemed destroyed and everyone did well and are strong.
All the statements of Simeone
“Today’s players need to know why they do such a thing. They need to understand and the best interpretation is development.”
“I have so many things from Bilardo. Of the coaches I had he is one of those who marked me a lot. He appeared with the 3-5-2, the full backs attacked inside, today they are surprised by Guardiola, but he has already done so. with Bilardo, he was ahead, light years before the others. When I started in football I had him as a coach, he scored me. It was an advance. “
“We look for what we want to be based on the players we have. Two years ago we realized that we weren’t arriving with 4-4-2 and we needed five under and we were changing and obviously watching. I like the one of Conte teams I liked Tuchel of Chelsea when they won the Champions League and we are creating situations to generate what we believe within our methodology where the physical pace is very demanding and to maintain the high level of tension you cannot slow down. “
“The one who runs less has to fix an opponent and press sectorized. The problem is what we do when we have the ball and that’s where we fight. a sophisticated attack is useful, because it positions you, you need it, it gives you time to mechanize the movements to find fluidity, but it is not decisive, there are teams that win with little possession and others with a lot of not attack “
“That moment of arrival at Atlético was exciting, I knew they expected a lot from me, but they didn’t know what I would bring to the team as a DT. The responsibility was great, the players wanted to learn and the first thing I said to the group when I thought it was that people always wanted to win and that the only thing that matters to them is to win. In this period we had a pretty big regularity, with very high peaks that we were close to winning the Champions League, but in general we were very regular, the feeling of wanting more, but we know where we are and who we compete against, it is not easy against Real Madrid, who have won 14 Champions League and play the same championship Nor with Barcelona which seemed destroyed and everyone played well and they are strong”.
“If we want to relate to the past, the groups are managed with other codes and we have to adapt to what it is today. They are guys with other life situations and today we buy an important car at 21 and that’s normal. It was normal. a different society, another economic situation at the level of collection, but the important thing is how they relate within the group and how the team is managed. The important thing is to manage the emotions of the kids when they play. Psychology is key , the people who can support, sometimes they think of Maradona because he broke him and the others who have not played think they are nobody and we need to work on this “
“We signal the route as technical staff and they drive the car. And they try to drive in the best way along the route we mark”
He plays much better than me and sees (the game) better than what I have seen, I don’t know if he had more goals than me (laughs). Especially in the national team he has a special place, a leadership in football. Here we want you to live with that research. Last year started very well, had an intermittent transition and ended up being what we wanted. He is an associative player, we need him and we hope he reaches the World Cup in the best possible way, but he must know how to compete every day. “
“There are players in history who have scored goals all their life, the attackers on duty, Lewandowski in four has scored five, surprises someone. The coach’s research is that goal situations, quality and emotions are generated in the aspects of the game change so much. Almost always the one who has scorers in the team wins, it happened to us with Diego Costa and Suárez “
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“We will see a great World Cup because now the players will be in their best version. Two months after the World Cup it is enough to think that a player who has been called up for the last matches is only one of the 23. Everyone is with the situation in which the World Cup finds itself. , that I have no rhythm, sometimes I say: sometimes it is nice to play and other times it is not because you see your flaws, you expose yourself continuously, I feel like a situation that I do not agree with. You have had four years to prepare for a World Cup, if it is It’s true that one or two can’t get in anymore. Scaloni already knows who I am. Look, finish the World Cup and keep playing football and the other side will arrive, but in January and February we will focus on what concerns us each for the other”.
“I see her in a state of joy and enthusiasm and positive, what she arouses in them is security (to the point that) it doesn’t matter who she plays with, it’s what I perceive from the outside. football and anything can happen, but it arrives in the state in which it must arrive: with the safety of the team he has, with the certainty of what he wants to play for and that is a boost for the football player and for the excellent team “
“Defeat is sad, it gives you the opportunity to value some things, when you win too much you forget it, you see that it is not like this and it will not always be like this. You have to go through all states, for those who are used to winning, it generates comfort.
When the chosen ones lose they get angry because they are not used to losing, and a situation arises that you do not want to change but it will happen to you “
“You look at the best, there are coaches who arouse sensations, have creativity, copy and improve. It is the research that we coaches have with the identity we have but bringing things out of it”
“Today the coaches are very important, because the game is no longer the same, the resolving ability was theirs, today it is rare to see players who solve alone, not even PSG, we try to make them more comfortable and coexist those of above and then win “
“I invite all creatives to a world final that you win 1-0 by playing badly, do you want it or not? I had teammates who played the ball very well and one day they said to me ‘today we have to win’ oh, today”
“If you go to the dictionary and see what the word failure means, it means not achieving what you want, I wanted to win the final of those champions”
“River plays well, he is one of those who keep wanting to awaken something different. He has a lot of game dynamics to be able to attack. Marcelo is doing an extraordinary job. It is very difficult to be at River for so many years, with the pressure and the need that leads you to be in the River. You have to regulate the changes of generation and players, support some greats who support the group … The truth is that I like how he plays. “
Source: Clarin
