Filipe Luis is the history of Atlético. Total played 333 games (the second most foreign in the history of the entity) in which scored 12 goals and gave 30 assists. In the summer of 2020 he went to Flamengo. Now he is on vacation in Spain and has gone through the microphones of The spar, where he has reviewed the news of Atlético and his future plans.
Balance at Flamengo. “I have played 50 games this season and I felt very good. Just a couple of injuries to the blissful twin. I continue to play as a left back. At the beginning I started as a midfielder or inside, but if I had to change my position now, it would be central, not forwards like the phenomenon of Dani Alves ”.
Dani Alves. “I really want to see him play. He has fulfilled his dream of returning to LaLiga. I spoke to him just before signing. At the age of 38, he won the Olympic Games with Brazil: he has won everything, he only needs the World Cup. Nobody wants to catch COVID, but if they have to catch it, it better be now so that nothing can stop them ”.
End of his career. “I closed a wonderful cycle at Atlético. I was in one of the best Athletic of history. Now I close the loop on my computer as a child. I’m from Atleti, of course, but playing for the team I was a fan of when I was little is very nice. That has given me an extra life in football. I had to reinvent myself and I am very much alive. Everything is going for me to retire at Flamengo and then continue my career as a coach. I believe that my third stage at Atlético will be in the coaching staff when Cholo calls me ”.
Cholo Simeone. “It goes for ten more years and I hope it will be like that. Obviously we all love him for what he has done and continues to do. He is the best coach in the history of the club. I was there before I arrived, in a completely different Atlético. I feel very proud to be an Atlético player, I told Miguel Ángel (Gil Marín) every time I go to Wanda ”.
Memory of the premiere of Simeone. “In the first training session at the Calderón with 15,000 people, what impressed me the most was that he said he had no commitment to anyone. That whoever the press or the people said was not going to play, but rather those who he thought were the best. Always. We felt that he could take us away and that made us grow. It makes you put your feet on the ground when you are the best, and believe me, I have believed myself to be the best. Footballers are like this: they shake our hands and we take our arms. That’s why , the time I was there, Simeone knew how to keep his distance “.
Cholo talks. “There were parties that he did not want me to attack. I had my ideas, which sometimes were not how I thought. Like, for example, Godín had his. For example, I thought: how am I not going to attack and how am I going to go? like this to the national team? With him you had to play for the team, not so that you would mark a great move in attack to go to your team. When you did not give direction to the players, each player acts differently. That is what that Cholo achieved: to give the team a path. These are things that are highly trained and are many concepts. They have been eight years with him, how can I not miss him? Today I can have a closer relationship with him, when I was a player because I was even afraid to say good morning to him. He is a guy who has impacted me in my life. He has made me better, both on and off the field. I know Cholo as if he were my father. He will change things in him team to regain that defensive strength and in this winter break he always returns the strongest team “.
Atlético’s offensive change last year. “I watched the games and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Seeing the team leaving their field and I didn’t believe it (laughs). I called Giménez and he said:” We are delighted. “He spoke highly of the assistant coach boy who new arrived. They were delighted with the training sessions. Cholo is a coach with a barbaric ability to adapt. Cholo has reinvented himself more than once, so more credit. “