Godín: “I told Suárez: 'At Atlético you can be a legend”

From legend to legend. Diego Godín spoke from the concentration with Uruguay and revealed what he said to Luis Suárez when he signed for Atlético. If a week ago, Simeone told in Argentina what he thought when, from the club's management, they pronounced the name of Luis Suárez as a possibility for 2020-21.

“Me I had already talked to him when he was in Liverpool, younger in case he could comeHe chose Barcelona, ​​he was not wrong and he broke it. When the option came up, the club called me and I laughed and said, Are you serious? We're going crazy for him. I called him and said: 'Look Luis, we have to win and you' want 'to win “. That was the beginning of a story that Atlético has given the eleventh League. Godín also helped.

“I had told (Suárez) how beautiful and how different it is to win with Atleti, neither better nor worse. Luis was already used to winning at Barcelona, ​​but he told him that a title there is different from Barcelona or Real Madrid, in which winning is almost an obligation. In Atleti he is going to be a legend, because his people feel that way, “Godín explained.He knows it well. His name forever linked to the 10th Atlético League, the one achieved at the Camp Nou, 2014, with his header that meant for the rojiblancos to win 18 years after the double.

or had already spoken to him when he was in Liverpool, younger in case he could comeHe chose Barcelona, ​​he was not wrong and he broke it. When the option came up, the club called me and I laughed and said, Are you serious? We're going crazy for him. I called him and said: 'Look Luis, we have to win and you' want 'to win.