The
Atlético de Madrid
which premiered in this preseason 21/22, was quite unusual. More like what could be an eleven of the Athletic B than the first team.
With the last minute low of Geoffrey kondogbia, by Coronavirus
, Diego
Simeone put one of the youngest eleven in recent years into the fray. An eleven that was almost U21 because it barely had three players from the first team –Jan Oblak, Mario Hermoso and Saúl Ñíguez-.
The eleventh of Simeone he was an average of 21.7 years old, nothing more. Except for the three first team players, none of the others were over 23 years old. Oblak (28), Handsome (26) and Saul (26), they were the ‘veterans’, but there were players like Giuliano (18) or Alberto Moreno (19), Valera (19) and Soriano (19), were barely coming of age. Ricard (twenty-one), Warrior (22), Medrano (21) and Camel (20) completed this unusual starting eleven.
Undoubtedly, apparently on the lawn, the quarry of the Atlético de Madrid You can be calm because a lot of quality was seen in many of the boys in the Academy.