• Champions. Simeone's old formula in Lisbon
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Lisbon woke up calm. Windy and springy, but calm. Early in the morning, doubts were cleared up in Atlético's expedition: there were no positives. And that, after Sunday's surprise with Correa and Vrsaljko, is already a first step towards optimistically facing the most important game of the season for Simeone's men. The players received the news in their bubble at Epic Sana, the hotel that welcomes them in the Portuguese capital. His rival, on the other hand, rests about 20 kilometers from there. Specifically in the luxurious Hotel Palacio Estoril, where the Spanish royal family stepped on numerous occasions during their exile and also inspired the author of James Bond.

Nagelsmann and his boys preferred to move away from the Portuguese capital to prop up the most important event in the history of the young German club. The English writer Ian Fleming , who was also a British naval intelligence officer, may have been in one of the rooms where the players stay to create his famous character James Bond. He stayed there during World War II and his first book, Casino Royale (1953), was inspired by the spies roaming the hallways of the compound. A movie setting to oxygenate the mind and heart of Leipzig.

In addition, a good handful of members of the European royalty, exiled and without a throne in that post-war period, also walked through its gardens. This was the case of Juan Carlos I , who spent his youth in Estoril with his parents, the Counts of Barcelona, ​​while he was preparing and traveling to Spain to study and assume the Head of State when Franco died. Although they had their residence in Villa Giralda, they dropped by the Estoril Palace. In some of the hotel rooms, between parties and meetings, many of the paths that Europe traveled in the 20th century were decided.

Stories from another time for a newborn team, clinging to the soccer elite thanks to the investment of the millionaire owner of Red Bull, Dietrich Mateschitz , and, for a year, the successful method of its young coach, Julian Nagelsmann . Both settled on the front lines of continental football four years ago (2016) and now threaten the fate of Atlético de Madrid. The rojiblancos have spent a lifetime sighing for a European Cup that, until now, has given them nothing but displeasure.

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