Glory awaits you – AS.com

Guys, glory awaits you. Atlético is ninety minutes away from being proclaimed League champion for the eleventh time in its history. Just thinking about it produces an emotion that is difficult to explain. Win to be immortal, to be remembered forever. Win so your name will be remembered in twenty, thirty or fifty years. Take part in capital letters of the history of an entity that is 118 years old. Atlético knows that if he plays as he has done in the last games, against Barcelona, ​​Real Sociedad or Osasuna, he will be champion. He suffered a lot, too much, and he did it because it is something inherent to the club. His game was higher than what the results say (follow today's game live on As.com).

In front will be a Real Valladolid that plays the relegation. Glory and hell in a match. Many fans of the Pucelano club consider that the team has been relegated for some month now, although not yet mathematically. But while there is life there is hope and Valladolid will hold on to it and their players will have to put everything on the pitch. Your options for permanence are few but football has seen everything. Live an important sports and institutional crisis, but they are professionals, their pride is hurt and where football sometimes doesn't reach it is done by other things.

Reasons to dream, believe and enjoyr

On Tuesday a documentary about the 25 years of the Doublet will be released that will give many goose bumps. Simeone, who was an important part of that squad, plays a key role in his form and in his way of understanding the decisive last game against Albacete. Atlético did not fail then in a crowded Calderón. Now it is the same, although with Cholo as the rojiblanco coach and one imagines touching the most sensitive fiber of each footballer. If then it was “we have to do it for all those children” who waited like so many thousands for the arrival of the Atlético bus to the stadium before starting, now it will be for so many and so many who have been swallowing saliva and biting their nails day after day, at first watching the overwhelming game of the team, then with the nervousness of those who verify that a pothole arrives and then suffering horrors before epic triumphs.

It will be for those who are there and for many who no longer accompany us. Each one will have their own particular reason to dream, to enjoy, to live that historical moment. Atlético has been overcoming a thousand difficulties: the departure of Diego Costa in December; the sanction of Trippier by the English Federation; casualties from a pandemic that hit the team like no other; injuries and also arbitration decisions. But Simeone came years ago to change everything and where others imposed only regrets and complaints, Cholo was true to his style: he preferred to look forward as so many times, grit his teeth and continue fighting. On a couple of occasions Atlético was on the wire, but they kept holding their heads high.

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Simeone has the important casualties of Savic (imperial throughout the year) and Lemar. He will put the block that has led Atlético to this point in the fray. An eleven with João Félix on the bench. The rojiblanco team hopes that they have to go out onto the pitch to enjoy themselves and not to revolutionize the clash. Atlético subjected Osasuna to a great siege in the first half, although he did not score. The path is the same. Valladolid will have to be strong behind waiting for Weissman to have one. That the meeting does not break down soon and appeal to the pride of each player.

The rojiblancas leagues, to the limit

Sergio's team has not won for months, but that is useless now. That is not going to help you. Atlético, meanwhile, won the league title nine times on the last day. You know what this is. He has sucked it, he wears it as standard. In the nine that led to the final match, he won the championship. The last time is relatively close, with Godín's goal at the Camp Nou on May 17, 2014. You won't be flustered by the situation. Leaving aside the emotions, Simeone could win his second title as a coach (only Ricardo Zamora and Helenio Herrera did) and Koke his eighth trophy in his history and reach Godín. For Luis Suárez it would be to lift a championship when they already considered him retired and to Llorente, Oblak, Carrasco, Saúl, Trippier and company become legends of Atlético. I imagine Cholo approaching the moment of truth: boys, glory awaits you.