Enrique Cerezo, president of
Atlético de Madrid
, He was very optimistic about the season that is coming for the mattress team.
“We go out in all seasons with the hope that it will be the season of Atlético de Madrid. Then the season is long, it takes many turns. What we do have clear is that the first game we played against him Pomegranate, which is a team that is doing very well, that has won everything. And it's very good at Europe. Then he I raised… well until the end. Many things will have to happen but it does not take away the illusion of going out to have a great season and if we can be champions, the better ”, said the mattress manager in Zero Wave, in ‘The Transistor'.
“Everything is closed. It will be a very close League. There is a lot of equality, it's going to be exciting. It's going to be tough, because we have the Copa del Rey, the Champions… it is a tough season, but a beautiful one because we are all quite evenly matched ”, he ventured.
“The truth is that it is an exciting season within the system in which we are going to have to live at least for a good part, hopefully it will not be very long. It will be a continuation of the final part that we lived in the previous one, but that does not have to take away our illusion, the possibilities of having a good campaign and above all that the public, before the end of the season, can return to the stadiums ” ; He explained to add that he would like it to be “at the end of the year”, although he acknowledged that it is simply an opinion. “Everyone knows how the issue of the pandemic is, it is attacking again and it is very difficult to control. But with the good behavior that we are having from practically all of us who work in the world of football, since the previous one has been finished and this one is going to start very well, “he said.
The president said that the current way of undertaking the competition is not the best. “The atmosphere has cooled down a lot, what happened the day before, that of the party … it's a bit dead because people can't move. And what is sad is to see the field without people when the games start, beyond those who go to work, the players and the referees, “he said.
“Within that sadness, at least we were able to finish the season. And thus, the economic losses that all the clubs have suffered have been less ”, he recalled.
“Football always excites you but it is true that there are times when it tires you, but well, it's like the one with little memory lapses. In the end one comes back to reality and continues to live it. Soccer is a wonderful sport that gives illusion to millions of people in the world ”.
THE COVID AND THE ATHLETIC
The president explained, in Zero Wave, how is the test routine for the equipment. “We do the tests almost at the same time as the players because we have to go to the games. It is a regulation of The league which is working very well. It gives you an important peace of mind. It is usually done on Fridays before the game and on Mondays. I prefer the PCR to the blood one, although with the stick there are people who have a hard time, even crying. I, fortunately not, “he said before revealing how the last two positives of the Athletic.
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Gimenez caught the virus in the family environment, there has been no more contagion in the team. Simeone caught him in a training match in Los Angeles de San Rafael, I think. He has passed the entire quarantine asymptomatic, but had tested positive and has had to pass the quarantine. Fortunately in football he is controlling himself very well, he is getting along very well, ”he said.