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The technical director of the Atltico de Madrid Diego Simeone He reacted after the death of his compatriot Diego Armando Maradona this Wednesday at the age of 60 in Buenos Aires with a clear consternation on his face.
“When they tell you that Diego left, you say: ‘No, you can’t go’. Staying around the world of football because he’s been the best”said “Cholo” in the on-court interview after his team’s scoreless draw against Lokomotiv Moscow in the UEFA Champions League.
Simeone described this day as “hard and difficult”, in which “a myth” has gone, which marked his childhood and his football education.
“We were born, our time, with eight or nine years looking at Diego who was starting to play and was the guide of what it was to play football. The pain of this moment that we have to live hurts us all, because Maradona is football, is Argentine, had that rebellious character that identified him where he was “, Describes the techniques.
The Atltico coach, who shared a dressing room with Maradona in the Argentine team and Sevilla, recalled the experiences he had with the football myth who died this Wednesday.
“I keep the space that I had to live close to him, as a person he behaved fantastically, taking care of me, inviting me to his home in Seville when I was very young, showing me the Argentine National Team”, I recall a Simeone with glassy eyes remembering Diego Armando Maradona.
