Diego Simeonethe coach of Atlético de Madridwhich was renewed this Thursday for three years, from 2024 to 2027, brings out the ambition, wants “more” in the red and white club, as he conveyed in a conversation published by official channels of entity to Miguel Ángel Gil MarínCEO and committed to “continually invest in the team and do the impossible” to please “so many people.”
“Dedicate myself in the same way that I have done myself since the first day I arrived. The footballers know that we want to win and we have a group of guys who are convinced that we can do it. And we have to help them from in yours and mine so that we can be strong on those four legs with our fans,” he expressed Simeon.
“We have also regenerated. We played one way at one time and today the team has evolved to another type. The team asks us to play this way. And I want more. You know that I want more. I hope we can reach all the our goal,” the coach continued in the conversation.
“Thank you again. This renewal is very important to me, because we are still behind a project that started many years ago. Thank you for trusting me and us. Above all, all the people who joined us in all this time, that we were also able to continue and develop everything we developed. I’m happy where I am and I’m looking forward to it,” said the Argentine coach.
“Fifteen years is an outrage for the way the sector is. It’s crazy,” he explained at the beginning. Gil Marin in determining the period of time that Simeone will serve at the head of Athleticsince he signed on December 23, 2011 to revive a team in crisis, wandering in the League, still looking for its place and its greatness lost a few years ago.
“I thought, what do we need? The team is doing poorly, we have come from a previous roller coaster on the issue of stability and I always dreamed of having stability, because I know that with stability I can help the club grow and Without stability, this is impossible. And there is one necessary fact: the results. Nothing else,” he recalled. Gil Marin.
“And in that moment of confusion I thought about who can help us achieve the same things. One, the results, because of his character. Two, the trust and values that can be built around a club. I remember a conversation I had at school Buenos Aires, in San Lorenzo. I stayed in that conversation,” he recalled.
Gil Marín: “There is no better decision in the history of the club”
“Call me Tony (his friend and partner in Athletic as a player, at the request of Gil Marin) And he said to me Miguel Angel wants to talk to you and is very likely to go. And I, in my mind, have been thinking about its emergence for three years. When you called me and told me ‘help us’ I didn’t care about anything else. ‘We need you to help us.’ The conversation ended there. I came with energy and desire to be here,” Simeone intervened.
“There is no better decision in the history of the club,” he said. Gil Marin, who highlighted how Simeone was able “in a decade” to “change the history of the club.” “Obviously the history of this wonderful club is changing and I think we will continue to do so,” he added.
“It’s crazy. Twelve years now in Europe there is no other case. The mutual trust that exists, but above all the results rule. It accompanied us. God willing that we continue with them,” continued the CEO of the Athletic.
“I’ve always wanted to go Athletic. I prepared myself for the opportunity I imagined to arise. Think about everyday. We can’t get away from the daily, from the famous match according to that dinner match in the early days,” said Simeone.
“It’s very important to keep remembering where we came from. I do it every day. When you remember the instability the club was going through at that time and appreciate what we have now, every day I thank God, ” he highlighted. Gil Marinwho advocated “never forget all” who “cost them to get here.”
“We have to continue to take care of it. We have an important thing ahead of us, to take care of everything that can be developed and add things to it,” said Simeone.
“We don’t need to set limits or ceilings,” he stressed. Gil Marin.
Source: La Verdad
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