Simeone's stability with respect to Madrid and Barcelona

Diego Pablo Simeone has been a blessing for Atlético. The coach who changed the course of a centenary team with his arrival in December 2011, when the mattress team wandered in the middle of the table and had just been eliminated by Albacete in the Copa del Rey and that he is already the most awarded coach in the history of the club, adding LaLiga 2020-21 to his record.

The cholo renewed his contract with Atlético until 2024, therefore, in the case of complying with it, will reach 13 consecutive seasons at the helm of the club, the first of them completing the second half of the championship (lifting the Europa League). To understand the magnitude of the stability that Simeone has given Atlético, one of the clubs with the hottest benches in LaLiga (not to mention in the time of Jesús Gil as president), You just have to compare it with the rest of the Spanish benches. El Cholo, by the way, will lead Atlético in the Champions League for the tenth consecutive season, this time as seeded for the league title.

Upon his arrival, Simeone joined Atlético in full historical duel between Barcelona and Real Madrid with Guardiola and Mourinho on the benches. A fierce fight that further increased the rivalry between the two most successful clubs in Spain. But, the two technicians ended up dating. Since then, Real Madrid have carried out seven relays on the benches, by six for Barcelona. After Mourinho, the white team joined Carlo Ancelotti (returning this year). Rafa Benítez would follow him, later the first stage of Zidane, Julen Lopetegui, former Atlético Santiago Hernán Solari player, Zidane again and this 2021-22 season Cholo will have to face Ancelotti again.

For its part, Barcelona seems to start this new course with Ronald Koeman staying on the bench, even though his future was up in the air. After Guardiola's departure, Simeone had clashes with Tito Villanova, Tata Martino, Luis Enrique, Ernesto Valverde and Quique Setién, before getting to Dutch. Changes and more changes of projects, while the era of cholismo has continued, with match by match by flag, lifting two league titles when they had not competed in the competition since the Double in 1995-96.

Other historical teams of our football, until the arrival of Simeone, direct competitors with Atlético or even above, have not been left behind. El Cholo has seen how during his time on the rojiblanco bench, Sevilla has had on his bench Marcelino, Míchel, Unai Emery, Sampaoli, Berizzo, Montella, Caparrós, Pablo Machín, again Caparrós and Lopetegui. The most bloody case is probably that of Valencia, then the Champions team and that last season was close to relegation. El Cholo has experienced a parade of technicians at the club during his mattress stage. Emery, Pellegrino, Valverde, Djukic, Pizzi, Nuno, Gary Neville, Pako Ayestarán, Prandelli, Voro, Marcelino, Celades, Javi Gracia and now the newcomer Bordalás. In addition, Valencia has appealed five times to Voro as interim coach and also to Nico Estévez.

At Villarreal, with a relegation to the Second Division in between precisely against the first Atlético de Simeone, the technicians have also been dancing on their bench. Molina arrived at the same time as Cholo, Lotina, Julio Velázquez, Marcelino, Fran Escribá, Calleja, Luis García, Calleja again until now it seems that with Unai Emery he has established himself. And in Athletic, traditionally always stable, they have been Bielsa, Valverde, Ziganda, Berizzo, Gaizka Garitano and Marcelino are their rivals. Laliga loses this season to Eibar in first and Simeone to Mendilibar with the gunsmiths, the duel that was already a classic on the benches and that had been taking place without pause since the 2015-16 season. A stability that Cholo has given and that Atlético has ensured to maintain two years more than It is the best signing and the best news for the mattress fans.