The coach of Atlético de Madrid, the Argentinian Diego Pablo Simeone, considered that the stadium Vicente Calderón, in which the rojiblanco club stopped playing in May 2017 and whose dismantling work ended definitively this Monday, will continue to be his home “in imagination and memories”.
“I have the best memories of what I have had to experience since the first day I arrived at the Athletic and the Calderón it was our home, and it will always remain so in our imagination, in memories and in spectacular moments lived “, he pointed out Simeone this Monday during the virtual press conference on the eve of Celtic-Athletic.
Simeone, who in addition to coach the Athletic during the last eight and a half years in which he has won seven titles he was a rojiblanco player for five seasons (1994-97 and 2003-05) winning a League and one Copa del Rey in 1996 he was asked about the old river stadium Apple orchards once the City of Madrid announced the end of its dismantling after 17 months of work.
In his comment, the former Argentine soccer player recalled one of his happiest moments as a rojiblanco, his goal in the 2-0 victory against Albacete on May 25, 1996, when the Athletic champion of that edition of the League Spanish.
“The goal Albacete that allowed us to return to be champions in the League Spanish I will remember for the joy that people had, my colleagues, to see the stadium in rojiblanco on a sunny day of May 25 extraordinary. As much as the stadium is no longer, all that will remain in the history of what I had to live, “he recalled Simeone.