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Diego (Maradona) has filled us with emotions. But between the cracks, without doubt, Messi is better than Maradona.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Cracks
Doubt
Messi
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You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Games
Goal
Winning
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Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Capacity
Midfield
Reads
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If there is one thing I am, it is very hard-headed. If I want something, I go after it - and I go after it ad nauseum.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Ad
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Whether you like Mourinho's style or not is open to discussion but he has won in different places and this has a lot of merit.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Discussion
Merit
Different Places
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Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Artificial
Just One
Snow
Wind
Condition
Pitches
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What I'm trying to say is that within the styles, first, there's something clear: the style is given by the players on the roster.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Styles
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He who brings a style to a club that can't carry it out, he is not a good manager, because he is attacking the club that hires him.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Attacking
Good Manager
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Catania was a real learning curve. I grew amid difficulties. In terms of courage and ideas, a lot about my Atleti comes from Italy.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Learning Curve
Difficulties
Curve
Italy
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The characteristics of people according to their star sign are similar, and we pay attention to how we can get the best out of them.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Attention
Characteristics
Pay
Pay Attention
According
Star
Sign
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As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Psychological
Spontaneous
Instinctive
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When coaches arrive at a club, we need to understand its history. If we don't understand it, then we are destined to have a bad time.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Coaches
Destined
Arrive
Bad Time
Club
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Whenever a fellow coach is sacked it is not good for any of us - it hurts. You just have to accept it because it is part of the game.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Hurts
Fellow
Sacked
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I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Important Things
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Football is not just in Europe, there is football all over the world so I am always open to the idea of managing anywhere in the world.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Europe
Always World Football
Anywhere
Always Football World
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Defeats are always tough, whatever you have lost, and they affect me the same way they affect anyone who loses a match - no more or less.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Loses
Always Me Lost
Affect
Me Lost Way
Defeats
More Or Less
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My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Limits
Nervousness
Against
Annoy
Him
Improve
Provoke
Role
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At some point, I would like to coach Argentina, but I have to improve as a coach. I would like to do it in the final stretch of my career.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Argentina
Stretch
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VAR exposes everything. Before we didn't have the possibility of seeing some things that we now see. The referees are people who can be wrong as well.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Possibility
Seeing
People See Everything
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With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Hindsight
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The teams that defend well are as important as those that attack well. If you don't concede goals it is much easier to win but it is all about having balance.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Concede
Defend
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It's not enough to just have talent at Atletico Madrid. At other clubs it is, but we can't sign superstars and have to look for players with a good work ethic.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Clubs
Good Work
Madrid
Talent
Work Ethic
Work Good Enough
Work Good Look
Atletico
Ethic
Sign
Superstars
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The hardest thing in life is reinventing yourself and staying at the top of your game, whilst the hardest thing in football is finding that club you want to stay at.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Football
Hardest Thing
Reinventing
Life Football Game
Club
Stay
Finding
The Hardest Thing
Whilst
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From the first moment you accept to join a club, the best thing you can do and the most respectful thing to do is ask yourself: 'What is the history behind this club?'
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Respectful
Accept
Club
Join
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Diego Costa always gives us physical and moral strength. He is a very important player for the character he transmits to the team, and his potential as a football player.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Football Player
Moral
Diego
Physical
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Maradona and Messi played in different times and in different positions. Messi is much more a striker, Diego was all over the entire pitch. They are two extraordinary players.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Different Times
Messi
Diego
Positions
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Every footballer has their own identity. A Uruguayan player is different to a Spanish player. A Portuguese player may be similar to a Spanish one, but not the same - and so on.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Footballer
Portuguese
Spanish
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Those who manage to keep the offensive and defensive balance are more successful. We search for balance in order to keep a stable level, which is the most difficult thing to do.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Balance
Manage
Offensive
Stable
Successful
Defensive
Difficult Thing
Most Difficult Thing
Search
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I relate football with boxing, with a street fight. In both cases there is always one moment, a second, in which someone shows fear in their eyes, in their body. In football it's exactly the same.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Cases
Exactly The Same
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Ajax have a set model, a defined youth programme - Barcelona have one too, and Juventus. And Atletico Madrid do too. Real Madrid don't - because they alternate developing their own players with signing talent.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Barcelona
Defined
Madrid
Real Madrid
Signing
Alternate
Atletico
Programme
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Finding myself in a final with Atletico makes me happy. Why? Because I know the feelings of all the people at the club - because I know how the players feel. They need to see their team as champions, so we have more fans every day.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Myself Me Day
Atletico
Champions
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The game's my life and I'm so passionate about it. When you see your life so intertwined with football it can make things very difficult. You might go and watch a film and start imagining footballers running across the screen, you know?
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Intertwined
Life Football Game
Footballers
Imagining
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Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best 'championship' for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa - lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions - become professionals of a high standard.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Angel
Best See Way
Champions
Divisions
High Standard
Lads
Lower
Standard
Professionals
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As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Characteristics
Analyse
Close Attention
Contribute
Good Thing
Sees
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Football is like hunting. One second can change it all, but it's not just any second, it's a flash. The prey is there and suddenly then it's not. In an instant it's over - you won't have the chance again. You need to know which one precise second to train for, and to understand that moment.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Chance
Flash
Football
Hunting
Instant
Precise
Prey
Train
Second
Suddenly
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I was 27 or 28 years old when I really decided I would become a manager. I would go home from training at Lazio, grab a folder and pretend I was taking a training session. You know the way kids imagine things, when they are playing? I would do the same as an adult, playing at being a manager.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Session
Pretend
Go Home
Grab
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