Diego Pablo Simeone continues to accumulate records as coach of Atlético de Madrid. He was previously the coach with the most titles in the club’s history and has recently been surpassed Luis Aragones as the one who sat on the bench of the Colchonero club the most times in the League.
He gradually overcomes the obstacles. Some of them even in Champions League because no coach of a Spanish team has ever coached them as many times in the highest competition as Cholo within Athletic.
In fact, there are currently only two technicians who exceed this definition Simeon as assured by Pedro Martín on Twitter. The first of them is Sir Alex Ferguson who reached 202 games as coach of Manchester United, Let’s remember that the Scot spent 27 years with the team that dominated the Premier League in the late 90s and early 2000s. They lifted the Champions League in 1999 and in 2008.
Another coach who has coached the same team on more occasions is Arsene Wenger. French taught the Arsenal on 191 occasions throughout the 22 years he was in charge of the Gunner bench. A season in which their greatest achievement was reaching the finals of the Champions League in 2006 when they lost against Barcelona 2-1, and they led the scoreboard.
Well, just behind them Diego Pablo Simeone what to glasgow He reached 98 games in the Champions League with Atlético de Madrid. In fact, this season he became the third coach with the most appearances for the same club in the Champions League after surpassing Valery Lobanovsky. The Ukrainian coach reached 96 games with Kyiv Dynamoa club where he was in two periods, the first from 1974 to 1990 and then from 1997 to 2002. In total 21 seasons.
And it was him Cholo will reach 100 games in the Champions League with him Atlético de Madrid Rotterdam he is new Feyenoord. A match that will be key for the qualification for the round of 16 of the current competition, and that will be very special for the Argentine coach.
Source: La Verdad
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