Simeone starts with 23 footballers: Saúl, Marcos Paulo …

Atlético is back. Simeone's team has started up in Majadahonda and has touched the ball again, a month and a half after winning the League in Valladolid. Of the group of that triumphal afternoon, they were barely this morning nine first team players and only one new face appears, that of Marcos Paulo. And before the absences, Cholo has surrounded himself with an important group of homegrown players until completing the 23 troops with whom you will work.

Oblak, Grbic, Arias, Savic, Hermoso, Kondogbia, Manu Sánchez, Saúl, Saponjic and newcomer Marcos Paulo They are the first team players available at this point, as the rest have had or have international commitments that will make them join later. From this list, the future of some is probably not in Atleti, cases of Saponjic, Grbic, Manu Sánchez and Arias, which may be assigned.

Thus, to complete the training sessions and, at the same time, to learn more about them, the coaching staff has recruited a series of homegrown players, some already very common and others less: San Román, Christian, Ricard, Marco Moreno, Montero (returning from his assignment in the Besiktas), Riquelme (returns from Bournemouth), Javi Serrano, Alberto Moreno, Germán Valera (he was in Tenerife), Mario Soriano, Giuliano, Camello and Borja Garcés (returns from Fuenlabrada).

First thing in the morning, the footballers passed the medical examination and then to the grass of Cerro del Espino. First session of preseason 21-22 and first contact with the ball 46 days after the successful closing of the League. The champion starts, with few new faces on the grass and many pending tasks in the offices. But now, football has returned at Atleti …