El Cholo's at it again I think this is Atletico Madrid sometime they can do the best and sometimes they can do the worst the only difference is this time La Liga is panning out just the way Diego Simeone will wanted to Simeone is building an army at Atletico Madrid and by the time the world realizes what's going on it just might be too late to stop them he's football's very own bad guy you cannot overemphasize the fact that Diego Simeone is as important to the club as the legendary players on the field the players the
fans they'll follow him to any lengths and that's because as a player elcholo did the same for Simeon it's always been football born in buenz arez in Argentina Diego Simeone had a dream just like any other Argentine kid at the time and that was to play football his journey began at V sarsfield where he impressed as a midfielder Diego Simone at the time was a guy in the middle who could do everything he could defend attack the all- action box tobox midfielder in fact he was so good with valz sarsfield that he became a regular
with the squad and by 1998 he was making his debut for the Argentine national team this was off the back of an impressive spell at valz where he'd scored 14 goals in 76 games and this impressive form earned elcholo and moved to Europe Italian football with pza at the time the club had just gain promotion to Sera and it was a chance for Simeone to put him himself against some of the best players in the world because back then where the real action was at was in Syria unfortunately for Simeone and Pisa it didn't quite
work out they failed to beat the drop in their first season and by the second failed to gain promotion from Siri B still Simeone had done enough to show there was a player in there who had the potential to become a lot more and as a result Ave Came Calling that changed his life and began the version of Diego Simeon the world knows now combative hooligan bad guy that's what Simeone was at severe and not because it's what he wanted to be but it's what he had to become Simeone was living a dream and had
to adapt he was playing alongside his igle Diego maradon in simeon's words as he States above when maradon attacked he defended Sevilla back then was a team many people didn't like playing against almost hated but the talent the team had still showed through maradon only lasted one season but even more so there was another man who shaped the image of Simeon we know today Carlos Bardo the coach of the Argentine national team that had won the World Cup in 1986 and six years on had brought his style of football to Spain anti- football it was
negative die hard football but when it worked it worked Bardo and simeone's relationship didn't last long however by 1994 he was off to his next team CL Atletico de Madrid honestly being the type of player he was at the time Simeone and atleti were made for each other how well Simeone was a fighter that's what Bardo and the time he spent at severe had taught him to be Atletico Madrid was and still is a club that's always fighting both on the pitch and off it they've always been in the Shad of the other Madrid team
Real Madrid and having to deal with financial and political issues Simone moving to the club was atleti getting a fighter in Midfield it peaked V Los Rocky Blancos in the 1995 96 season against the odds they ended up winning La Liga and the Copa del re with Diego Simeone playing a key role in that what they had to contend with was a Barcelona Yan C Le dream team which was fading but still a team nonetheless still only 24 at the time he'd become a cult hero and set the scene for what was to come Simeone
left atleti to join into Milan in 1997 and to him he felt like he had unfinished bisness back in Italy it was during this period he had that Infamous moment back in 1998 getting David Beckham sent off at the World Cup a master of the dark Hearts already at the time this moment was iconic for what was to come think about it as David Beckham The Flash Player and headline maker the one on the front pages and coverstar but Diego Simeone the man from buenz AES less known a hard worker with Weir the determination to
win no matter the cost had done a job on England star man after his time at inter he had a spell at lcio before he returned home now captain of the club Simeone returned as a man who had seen everything Atletico Madrid proved to be his last Club in Europe he was back home playing for Racing Club in Argentina before hanging up his boots and going straight into management Sime only the player was done and it was now time for Simeone the manager no sooner has he ended his spell at race Club then he became
a manager the measure of success he enjoyed early on was mixed it couldn't have gone off to a better start he led asur anes to the first league title in 23 years in 2006 after joining from Racing Club but he left the club in 2007 after a mixed run of results his next spell was at River Plate where in 2008 he was once again League champion but after getting eliminated from the 2008 Coppa pseudo Americana Simeone resigned he was soon back in the managerial role with San Lorenzo in 2009 but a year later in 2010
simeoni resigned mix spells in coaching up to that point but the diard Simeone was never going to quit if playing under Bardo at severe made him the hard player he was taking the job at katania was the final piece into creating the simeoni weo as a coach the 5 months that made him when he joined katania they were a team in danger of being Rel delated appointing Simeone seemed like The Logical replacement just looking at the katania squad list from That season they had 12 players in the team from Argentina getting a coach like Simeone
who was also Argentine but more importantly had played in Italian and understood the Italian game just made sense and it did katania under Simeone was the formation of the classic Simeone style of football we've come to love with Atletico Madrid which we'll get to later you using the 4231 or 4312 it was about sitting and absorbing the opposition attacks while being dangerous on the counter they were happy to concede the ball so long as it meant they'd be able to attack the opposition where it hurt most the 5 months he spent with katania made him
a team battling the drop they finished with 46 points the best ever total in the league Simeone had instilled an us against their mentality at the club and at the end went back to Argentina to coach Racing Club but in 2011 elcholo was back home again only this time on the sidelines 2011 Simeon was appointed as the new coach of Atletico Madrid but he could not have gotten off to a better start before I get into that just in case you haven't hit that subscribe button to football Historia yet just hit that button below simeon's
first season at Atletico Madrid was special they beat Racing Club in an all Spanish final in the Europa League and by 2012 they they announced themselves to the rest of Europe August 2012 he began the season with a 41 demolishing of the Champions League win as Chelsea in the UEFA super Cup Final and in The Following Season he added a very special trophy to the mix the Coppa Del R final after beating City Rivals Real Madrid this one was extra special because it was a sign of things to come elcholo was building and that Siege
mentality he had on the team was starting to yield results the 20134 season is one Atletico Madrid fans will never forget against the odds with the dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid still in play simeon's Atletico Madrid team managed to break the Jinx they won La Liga averaging just 49.1% possession what this means is that Simeone adopted the tactics he used at katania give the opposition the ball as long as it doesn't hurt them and when it's time to strike on the counter they're deadly to effect That season they also got to the quarterfinals of
the champions league for the first time they beat the record again they eliminated Barcelona in the quarterfinals and in what was a masterful battle of wit did a job on Jose mourinho's Chelsea Turf he beat them 3-1 on the night and on agreer to advance to the final they almost won it in Lisbon before that extratime header from Sergio Ramos condemned the team to a 41 defeat over the years that followed Simeone continued to produce classic atletic Meo teams that featured his style and how he wanted to play and although the football was largely negative
It produced results by 2016 they were in another Champions League final to Real Madrid but lost again by 2018 they won the Europa League for the second time under Simeone won the UAA super cup in the same year and only three years later won La Liga again in 2021 let's fast forward to the present day see guys the reason we went through this detailed history of Simeone is to understand what the man is what made him why he sets his teams up the way he does and to counter a couple of Notions the first of
which is that he plays Haram football I think after watching Atletico Madrid there are a Mis Miss conception wrong wrong conception about the way he played even Pep Guardiola knows that there's a misconception about the way Atletico Madrid is perceived Atletico Madrid kill football that's the misconception the first one it's that they play defensive football park the bus if you like and are boring at times to answer this here's what Simeon had to say about his team a couple of months back prial each season the realistic goal is to qualify for the champions league and
finish in the top four so what does this have to do with the tactics well let look at atleti again remember when we said earlier that they were always in the shadow of Real Madrid when Simeone joined as a player well much hasn't changed Diego Simeone is a manager who knows how to make the most of what he's got he's been realistic with his approach and sometimes comes out as misunderstood that Atletico Madrid is a big team in the modern game now comes down to Simeone and his ability to get the players to stick to
the task and be doggy I think today for the first time in the first half I see a team play five and five no stri so um it's very hard to find the spaces remember Kevin De bruyne complaining about simeon's 550 let's dive into that a bit if Atletico Madrid had actually come out against that City team with the form they were on C would have eventually found the spaces to play into and beaten them that's just a reality Simone knew this and put out a side he knew would be able to compete to play
for Simeone means to give everything with Simeon I don't think he could ever manage in England just purely because it when he when he was speaking in the dressing before any game he was so passionate and the emotion from him was so high you know you you just like ready to go to war for him Kier in trippier explains it best every game with Simeon is a battle the league itself is a war for simion the mentality he took from Bardo at severe that's what it means for him to play footb football is to survive
they love him at Atletico Madrid his style of play however negative it is is timeless again it's with the siege mentality that's what it means to play for Simeone it's to understand that in that game at that moment they cannot take any prisoners on the touch line with Simeone it's pure passion he doesn't hide 11 years in and yet every game means more to Simeone you see the way he gesticulates on the sides the way he gets the home crowd going they'll stop at nothing until the game is done another thing to note with Simeon
is that he's got his style of players his brand listen to him talk about building players here and you understand what he means by this Simeone loves working with relatively unknown players and developing them from the ground up because that's to him the best reward any manager can ever get not trophies not titles but as he said seeing a player grow so what's a typical Diego Simeone player well I could name a few okay Diego Goden Stefan Savage Angel carea Antoine griezman Yan all black and Gabby notice anything similar about these guys they're players who
are talented no doubt but also have that extra weight to get around games guys like Angel corer and Stefan Savage when he was at the club die hards they never quit antoan Griezmann the clever player in front knits it all together this season they've added Julian Alvarez to the mix as well as Connor Gallagher and with both players you can see what Simeon is about with a player like Julian Alvarez for example is the same profile of attacker as Angel carea maybe even better clever enough to find spaces and be clinical on the counter but
also very effectively C press you could say Connor Gallagher is an English prototype of Simeone I love this one man I really do you talk about having that atti blood I think Gallagher's got it and maybe he doesn't know it yet but it's going to be activated once he gets into training under Simeone it's like talking about Diego Simeone only 20 years early behind only Frank Schmidt who has been at Heidenheim for a staggering 17 years Diego Simeone is the second longest serving manager in the European top five leagues after having spent 13 years at
the club if he wasn't good he wouldn't have spent that long at the club they love Simeone it's impossible to think about Atletico Madrid without mentioning Simeone at the helm of Affairs this season in La Liga simeone's Atletico Madrid team is quietly On The Rise a fourth three win against sevia beating Sparta PRI 60 in the Champions League beating PSG at the park the princes in the same competition typical Atletico Madrid results it's managers like Simeone that make the game what it is now an interesting mix of style and personas Simeone is one of the
OG managers he's had to evolve to compete with a new crop of managers in the game now one of them is Manchester United's Ruben amarim Fresh Off beating Manchester City in the derby he's in the mentality in the current United Team his players have to be wary of want to know what it is it's all in the next video
