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THE TECHNICAL PRESENTED HIS BOOK 'THE SIMEONE EFFECT '

Simeone: "We continue to generate enthusiasm for the upcoming season"

Diego Pablo Simeone presented his book 'The effect Simeone' IN the VIP Lounge of the Vicente CalderoN and spoke to the Media ahead of the last league match against Zaragoza.

Simeone represented happiness. A great season that his team, Atletico Madrid, has has this season, the Argentine coach attended the presentation of his book 'The Simeone effect' which is clear, plain and simple, as he explained, the Argentine reviews his life from his time as a player to his current coaching profession. Simeone accompanied by his family, colleagues and friends, reflected on his happiness. "I feel weird presenting a book, I'm used to the pressroom. I'm happy because I was presented with the idea of doing it but I’d never have developed it myself." The coach described the book as fundamental in providing for players, family, and coaching staff. "Finding experiences is the most important part of the book. Players who we have had and my assistants have been an important part of the book, without them we would not have stories to tell and I am happy to be able to transmit a book that has been simple. The book is as simple and spontaneous as I am."

Aside from literary theme, the Argentine coach spoke about the next league game for Atletico Madrid in a stadium as difficult as La Romareda. "We hope to have a good match against Zaragoza to finish the season with a good feeling and with the victory. We continue to generate great enthusiasm for next year," he said.

Given the amount of changes on the team benches in the Spanish first division, Simeone said that it is a situation that happens a lot in football and is always moving. "There’ll be happy people who can start working again. The clubs are always thinking how to keep growing to increase the importance and greatness of the entity. We know that the possibility to stay in a club always depends on factors, this is a continuous motion, some will leave and others will come in and contribute their ideas," he said.

Simeone was grateful to Falcao and his future. "The choices in life are personal. With Falcao, I happened to be in River with him and he always competed with the same enthusiasm that he has competed with here now he’s more mature." he testified.

The technician set the target for the coming years to continue growing with a base that has given so many good times to Atletico. "We have to keep growing in the same way we have been doing. In my second game in the club, Courtois, Juanfran, Miranda, Godin, Filipe, Tiago, Diego, Gabi, Arda, Adrian and Falcao played. In recent games, there were only three variations to that. Costa entered for Adrian, Koke for Diego and Mario for Tiago. We have built a very strong base and hopefully we can bring competitive players that can make us grow."

Asked about the possibility of challenging for the league and Champions league next season, the technician refused to get carried away with the euphoria and appealed for hard work to achieve greater heights in the near future. "You have to live in reality. We won a game that will be remembered in time. We have to build every day to be closer to that possibility, if we think that way we will become closer in time. We have to keep working".