On April 21, 2024 and before the eyes of his father, Giuliano Simeone showed the Cholo that he was prepared to be part of his Atlético de Madrid. Deportivo Alavés had just defeated the mattresses for two goals to zero in a match in which the Argentine coach’s son was key. “In the field he has no father, he has no mother. When you have to win, you have to win, and I like that. I congratulate him for the great work he did, “he said, despite the stumbling block, a proud Simeone. Of that performance, which undoubtedly marked a before and after in the future of Giulian, they meet this Saturday 377 days. Mountain And he does Under the label of being the great revelation of Atlético this season. Very few were waiting for him, but in Vitoria they were clear.
“He always told us that his dream was to play in Atlético. His qualities go hand in hand with those of the club no longer surprises us everything he is getting“The Uruguayan pivot and one of his great support in Alavés, Carlos Protoci, on relief, pointed out.
In the Sports City of Ibaia, his companions miss him very much. An educated, smiling boy who fell to the costumes for his joy and for those insatiable desire he had to help the team. In Vitoria, in addition to making friends, Giuliano also lived the hardest moment of his short sports career. In a preseason meeting against the Burgos, at 21, the end suffered a fracture of ankle’s fibula and dislocation that had almost five months away from the game.
After a surgical intervention that was successful, the player took refuge in Madrid to be close to his in the first months of his recovery. The heat of the family helped him cope with the hard blow of the injury and, after that first ‘duel’, the Argentine returned to Vitoria to put under the orders of the medical services of Alavés.
Surrounded by all and with the support of their inseparable, Antonio Blanco, Rafa Marín and the South American clanGiuliano was shortening deadlines until on January 2, 2024, his long -awaited debut was produced in a league meeting before the Royal Society. From there, Luis García Plaza would progressively give him minutes until the long -awaited duel came against Atlético de Madrid on April 21. From that clash against the rojiblancos in which he would be starting for the first time in the League, Simeone’s little boy would not move from eleven until the end of the seasonremoving the match played against Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabéu.
The small print of a new assignment and that today “loosen” a little
His performance, after an injury like his, impressed all. Same guerrilla character of always and leaving his soul every time he jumped to the grass, the Alavés wanted to retain him again for this season. Luis García was in favor of having him again in his team and Atlético gave the OK to repeat Vitoria-Gasteiz as a destination.
As we reported in relief, there was only one person who did not finish accepting the scenario of pure loan as the best solution. And it wasn’t anyone. Simeone did not have it entirely clear and Giulian’s assignment to Alavés was signed with the pact at the last minute of including a couple of clauses at the contract at the request of the mattress coach. On the one hand, allow Atlético to undo the assignment if the cholito “broke it” in the Olympic Games with Argentina and another in which it was made clear that the player could return in the winter market to the capital if the team needed it.
Unfortunately from Alavés, Giuliano left in Paris with the albiceleste already mid -August the Atlético enrolled in LaLiga. “He had to go to Alavés, he had a very important injury, he got up and fought. In the last six days he was an important player in the First Division. Suddenly, they call him from the Argentine National Team for a friendly prior to the Olympic Games. Take that opportunity, go to the Olympics and call attention and you say: ‘I’m a father, but I’m not dumb‘, Simeone himself confessed in a talk with Maxi Rodríguez.
What comes next is already known by all. Eighth player of the template with more minutes played (2,572 ‘), its irruption and its status has been one of the great colchoneras victories this season. Beyond their numbers, —5 goals and 8 assists – its impact on the squad has been so overwhelming that His last substitution in the League was precisely against Alavés on November 23.
When this afternoon, the Mendizorroza changing room tunnel, Giuliano, will be endless of hugs. Kisses, laughs and more kisses. Those who know him most will tell him that “loosen“This afternoon and what”Do not get the madman“. But there they already know that this is not in your DNA.
