Daniel Willington, was the first coach to have Diego Pablo Simeone in professional football. The one who made him debut, as a kid, in Velez Sarsfield. ‘El Daniel’, as they call him, closely follows the trajectory of his former pupil, now on the benches, and celebrated the victory of the Atlético de Madrid in LaLiga for Cholo.
“The” Cholo “played 10 and the ‘Turu’ Flowers of 5 and I invested them. I put the “Cholo” 5 and 8 apart, he was a 100% professional, not like me. El Cholo was a winner from the beginning, that differentiated him from the rest, his winning attitude. I was very happy for this title, if I had it in front of me I would not say anything special, I would congratulate him “, says Willington, 78, in Super Deportivo Radio.
In what the former footballer of the 60s and 70s has no doubts is that there is no better place to Simeone than the Metropolitan. “El Cholo has to stay at Atlético for many more years. Where is it going to be better than there? It is your home. If you are well at home and they treat you well, why are you going to leave and take the furniture elsewhere. Besides, in Atlético he commands, he does everything, he even harangues people, he is a showman“, he pointed.
But of course, the Argentine team continues to claim it. And although a Willington you would like, you think it is not an easy step. “I would like the selection for Cholo but with the selection you have to be careful because it is a double-edged sword. There were many better coaches than Scaloni to put in the national team. Tapia grabbed him and put it like when they give you a vaccine for Covid, they give you anyone because there was no other. I liked Cholo, Gallardo and Pochettino to lead the team. Scaloni is inexperienced and it is not easy to manage these monsters”.