Sérgio Conceição and Diego Simeone met at Lazio. A man of Portuguese blood crossed paths with a man of Argentine blood in a club of Italian blood, a Latin explosion that ended up molding, training and building two coaches who, today, are very similar in the way they present themselves during the game. play. how they communicate in the press room and how they motivate the team. Conceição is the most similar coach to Simeone on the European scene and Simeone is the most similar coach to Conceição on the European scene — and this Wednesday they met again.
Like last season, FC Porto and Atl. Madrid opened the Champions League at the Wanda Metropolitano. A year ago, dragons and mattresses drew goalless in Spain on the opening day of the group stage, and the victory of Simeone’s men at the Dragão in the final ended up pushing the Portuguese team to third place and to the Europa League. This Wednesday, with Club Bruges and Bayer Leverkusen facing each other at the same time in Belgium, both Conceição and Simeone were looking for a better result than the one in the draw a year ago.
“I think Atl. Madrid is always one of the favorites to win the competition, he has shown in these years that he is close to achieving it. It’s a club, as I said, run by a former teammate of mine. In the principles of the team you can see a lot of what I was able to share in the years I spent with him”, said the FC Porto coach in the preview. “FC Porto is a team like its coach, with vitality, intense, important collective work from all the players. And that makes them a competitive team, which always competes”, replied the Atl coach. Madrid.
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Source: Observadora
