Profe Ortega, Atlético de Madrid’s physical trainer for the last decade, is negotiating a new destination after leaving the red and white club. The Uruguayan, 66 years old, is listening to offers to embark on a new professional path and, as AS has learned, One of the clubs that are making progress in obtaining his services is the Mexican Tigres. Both parties are negotiating his arrival at the club, where Ortega could help the team by contributing all his skills after long experience in a club of the highest level in Europe that has competed to win the Champions League and has won several Leagues.
Tigres, a Mexican club in which an old acquaintance of our League such as Diego Lainez plays, wants to make a flash signing this summer. This is Profe Ortega, one of the most recognized physical trainers in football, especially in Europe. From 2011 until now he has been one of Simeone’s main assistants at the head of Atlético de Madrid. He being a key piece in the successes achieved these years (Leagues, Europa League, Champions League finalist on two occasions…) thanks to the training sessions that he has organized so that the players were at a high level.
Ortega, after leaving Atlético de Madrid at the end of this season, is open to listening to proposals and seeking new challenges. One of the ones he has on the table is Tigres. These days he is in Montevideo giving some talks, but while he is negotiating his possible contract with the Mexican club, where he could have coordination functions and coincide with another old acquaintance of Atlético, Veljko Paunovic, their new coach. One option, that of the Profe, which is being considered so that Tigres can make the most of all the knowledge acquired with Atlético de Madrid and the operation of one of the main clubs in Europe that has stood up to historic clubs from the Old Continent.
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