The Burgos jumpsuit announced to abandon the Atlético de Madrid
at the end of the season to start a new stage in his life as a solo coach. The last eight years has been the second of Diego Pablo Simeone
with which he has formed a tandem that has caused the club to experience the best stage in its history. Behind him are a League, two Europa League, two European Super Cups, a Copa del Rey, a Spanish Super Cup and two finals of Champions League.
Now, he opens a new stage in his life in which he will undertake the solo adventure of being a coach. And is that the Burgos jumpsuit all his life he has become accustomed to deviating from the norm. “I am a pursuer of dreams. And the time I have to do it will not be enough for me ”. He certainly hasn't wasted any time since he left football in 2004 after suffering from kidney cancer in 2003 that precipitated events when he was in the Atlético de Madrid and with Luis Aragones on the bench.
Singer
A ‘Mono’ Burgos that retirement from football was already considered when he was in the ranks of the Real Mallorca. Back then he was thinking about dedicating himself to music. And it is that from his stage in Argentina He had already started his first steps as a singer in the group called The Piara performing versions from well known bands like The Rolling Stones passing by Paranoid Mice or Pappo. Already in Spain he founded the group Burgos Sympathy being in Mallorca releasing two albums as they are Check the King o Fasolera de Tribunes. In 2002 he already founded his last band The Garb, name formed by its initials Germán Adrián Ramón Burgos and with the one that estivo from 2002 to 2007 approximately.
Commentator
A facet that after having been a player made it compatible with his appearance in the media. On National Radio of Spain, he made a place for himself as a commentator on the Sports Table and then made the leap to television to participate in Telemadrid broadcasts. He also participated in the Reality Football Cracks TV, a kind of Triumph operation soccer in which he coincided with the current coach of Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane, with a collaborator of Mundo Deportivo such as ‘Lobo’ Carrasco or with Enzo Francescoli. The program was not very successful and the players' career did not have a long journey. The winner was Iván Ruiz and he had the opportunity to try his luck in the Atlético de Madrid B.
His beginnings as a coach …
At the same time, he began to take out his soccer coach card in the Real spanish soccer federation. Practices were done at Atlético de Madrid C under the baton of Alejandro Sánchez and replacing his compatriot Óscar Mena as third coach, who took over one of the club's children. It was usual to see him off the bench, from the stands watching the games to be able to give the coaches a different vision.
His first experience on the bench came at a historic club in Madrid. One of the oldest as is the Real Carabanchel. Al ‘Cara’ arrived with the intention of returning the Third division, but after a few months in Regional Preferred he decided to resign in October 2010. A few months later he became Simeone's second. First in the Catania, after in Racing de Avellaneda and finally in the Atlético de Madrid. The rest of the story surely know it….