The Argentine coach Diego Pablo Simeone, technician of Atlético de Madrid, recalled the ex-footballer Diego Armando Maradona, who died on Wednesday at the age of 60, as a “brilliant” person in football, who “knew the formation of any team and knew all the players.”
“Staying with the man I knew, the athlete I was lucky enough to be able to play with. He always knew everything, you asked him about the formation of any team and he knew all the footballers, and that was something brilliant in him ”, he recalled this Friday Simeone at a press conference.
The Atlético coach, who shared a dressing room with Maradona in the Argentine national team and during the 1992-93 season at Sevilla, he recalled that players his age grew up wanting to be like ‘Pelusa’.
“We, when we were 8-9 years old, Maradona I was already playing in First Division, and we all had the illusion of being Maradona, we were going to play and we all wanted to be Maradona ”, he recalled.
Asked about the signs of pain experienced yesterday in his country, Argentina, during the burning chapel and the transfer of the body to the cemetery, with even some incidents with the police, Simeone He explained that his death causes “enormous pain” to his compatriots.
“His loss caused enormous pain to a country that identifies with a man who gave us emotions that surpass anything that has happened to us from the sport,” he concluded Diego Simeone.