Atlético will finish its 2021-22 season in San Sebastián, Anoeta, with an objective yet to be met: that of remaining third. It is not just pride, that Simeone in his ten years at the head of the rojiblanco bench, never fell below that position, outside the podium: being third and not fourth means an income of seven million and that is never trivial. But, beyond the end of this course, Atlético is already outlining the next one, the summer that will start the 2022-23 season.
The holidays will start on Monday. It was considered to play a friendly to close the season against Ponferradina on Tuesday 24, but the Bercian team, 8th in Second, is immersed in the fight to reach the promotion playoff and that friendly will no longer be played. At first, Atletico footballers will have 45 days of vacation. The return to work of the template is set for the second week of July, Thursday 7. Then, like every year before the pandemic, Atlético will travel to Los Ángeles de San Rafael (Segovia) to carry out their two-week stay.
Last season was only one, still the world stopped by COVID, but this summer, the coaching staff, except for a last minute turn, will recover both. From 11 to 23. Then, to this day, there is no tour planned but the rojiblanco team will play several matches abroad, as in recent years, that will take shape in the coming weeks in which the meetings will be frenetic, everything will support everything. Who follows, who doesn’t, the backbone of an Atleti that seeks to leave this year’s irregularity behind to become champion again.