Pasqués and Simeone break their relationship between controversy

“Nine years at Atlético de Madrid have ended here with the joy and satisfaction of having fulfilled with honesty, professionalism and absolute loyalty the immense challenge that Simeone proposed to me that December 2011”. Just a year ago, on December 2, 2020, Pepe Pasqués, who until that moment had been Cholo’s press officer and one of his most trusted men, said goodbye to Atlético. The professional relationship was ending, the staff continued, it could not be otherwise. Pasqués, next to Simeone from Racing, for 16 years, was always his maximum defender, left and right hand. But now, a year later, this one too seems to have been definitively broken. The personal. Publicly.

Despite having left Atlético for reasons that have not transpired and that neither party has wanted to expose (“There were things that happened with the club that for confidentiality reasons are not worth telling. Things were said that were not true and I proved it over time, but I was already out. I reached an agreement, I collected what was left of my contract, but the relationship with the club was worn out because it was many years, ”Pasques himself explained in an interview on ‘Infobae’ on September 18), it seemed that Pasqués was still the Always faithful squire, not in vain, he continued living in Madrid with his family, he embraced the journalism he came from before starting the trip next to Cholo and, Since July, he led the project ‘Los guerreros del Cholo’, a podcast on YouTube and Twitch in which he analyzed all the news from the rojiblanco point of view in an expression coined by himself since 2016, ‘Los guerreros del Cholo’ Until yesterday.

The tweets of his wife, Marcela Folco

Pasqués closed his channel with a video titled ‘Point and end’ in which he speaks sadly and in which a total break with Cholo is palpable, whom he does not name but is there, flying over his entire intervention. “In all this year of my farewell there were subsequent events that affected my health, my spirits and my heart, from which I recovered with the support of my wife and my daughter, despite their young age. And then those loyal friends who don’t sell for four tickets. And I must admit that also with good therapy. I showed him with evidence that I always told the truth, but that remains between him and me “, he explains at one point to add, shortly after:”It is as if we did not exist. Believe me that in my house there is no place for resentment, nor the need to hang onto anyone’s tits, like a fool he replied to my lady’s tweet “.

And it is that a tweet from his wife, precisely, Marcela Folco, last Tuesday was the one that exploded everything publicly. “I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, with the phrase Cholo Simeone also DIEGO. By God I can’t believe how hypocritical you can be… I never imagined this of you who once I put my husband’s life in your hands in an emergency operation. May God enlighten you ”, she wrote in response to the announcement of the first teaser of the documentary made by Amazon about the figure of Cholo: Simeone: live match by match. She later deleted it but yesterday, she was writing again, and her tuis exuded the same bitterness and sadness for the treatment she received after so many years of service and unconditional support from her husband. “The famous and why now. Easy. I waited a year. They put him out of work. Why doesn’t my husband speak, since he had to sign a very expensive one-sided confidential report for life. We gave Diego expert evidence showing that Pepe had done nothing. The unexpected was when my husband told him why couldn’t they continue working together Although he was not in the club and he replied: ‘It would be to put a finger in the ass of M —– —- I’. A program was made supporting a project and none of his co-workers over 15 years had the kindness to call or ask how we were doing”. A project that, when it began at Atlético, in December 2011, had Pasques living with Cholo Simeone and Pablo Vercellone, rojiblanco goalkeeper coach, for a year in an apartment in Pozuelo.

“As time passed I did not stop congratulating him on the title he achieved. The joy of those I consider my friends was also my joy, even though I was not there … After a while I thought it was a good idea to do journalism again, do a program (‘Los guerreros del Cholo’) and continue defending an idea and a project that I did not doubt even in difficult moments, to which they know that I gave myself and defended with a loyalty that I dare to say that there was not nor will there be in this project or in its creator”, Said, while, also in the farewell video of his podcast the man who, for 16 years, was more cholista than Cholo, Pepe Pasqués.