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Even sports enthusiasts not interested in football and everyday news readers probably noticed and remember how on May 17, 2014, there was a sudden increase in articles and reports about Spanish football trends. Countless photos of footballers wearing yellow kits, embracing each other, and raising their arms to the sky screamed so emotionally that it seemed possible to hear it while looking at the monitor. Later on, those same players would throw a smiling man dressed in a suit with an interesting black haircut. All of this was not in vain or just a coincidence. In the world of football, that day a true sensation happened - after an 18-year hiatus, Madrid's "Atletico" team won the title of the highest league in Spain. The sensation happened for a simple reason - if at the beginning of the victorious season (2013/2014) you had conducted a survey of who would win the championship, 10 out of 10 respondents would have said it would be FC Barcelona or Madrid's "Real". Although there are enough high-level teams in the division, only these two have enough financial and playing resources to compete for the champions' title throughout all 38 rounds. The fact that "Atletico" was able to put up a serious fight against these two world-class giants until the final matches of the season, not to mention winning the championship, is a commendable achievement. To make matters worse, this team from Madrid was one step away from winning the Champions League, if not for Sergio Ramos's equalizing goal during the added time of the final match, after which the opponents - Madrid's "Real" - crushed the exhausted "Atletico" players with a final score of 1-4. Despite this, head coach Diego Simeone achieved in the last 3 years what fans could not have even dreamed of - in addition to the "La Liga" trophy, he also won the titles of "Copa del Rey", "Supercopa de Espana", "UEFA Europa League", and "UEFA Super Cup". But how did he manage to do all this when he arrived at a team that didn't even compete for a place in European tournaments at the time?
(Emotional Cholo)
Diego Pablo Simeone, known as "Cholo," is a former midfielder for "Sevilla," Madrid's "Atletico," Rome's "Lazio," and the Argentine national team. Wikipedia will tell you that this nickname was given to the Argentine because of his energetic play on the field during his playing days when, at the age of 14, his youth team coach Victorio Spinetto compared young Diego to the combative former Boca Juniors and Argentine national team player Carmelo Simeone (no relation), who had a similar nickname. In fact, when talking about Simeone as a coach, we must know about Simeone as a person because this is an inseparable part of him as a strategist, having a significant influence on his coaching style.
