For a week, Diego Pablo Simeone has been confined at his home, biting his nails so that Covid-19 allows him to return to work and be able to give the orders to his players live again.

His address is now his operations center, where he receives information online instantly on Atlético's preseason in Majadahonda.

Today he will not miss a detail of his team's only warm-up friendly match: at Wanda, against

Almería

(5:00 pm).

In the distance, he controls that every detail of the preparation, since the stage in Los Angeles de San Rafael was abruptly interrupted by the coronavirus, remains intact.

His voice is the one that threads each session, even without being present.

And it will be until the PCR says it is clean.

A

Nelson Vivas

, his coach second inseparable during his time in Argentina (Racing, Estudiantes, River and San Lorenzo), who could not join personal circumstances to landing the Cholo Atletico, in December 2011, he touched has to

remain isolated at home, after having contact with Simeone.

Both, old companions of battles with the albiceleste (both played the 1998 World Cup), share the same style of work and nerve when it comes to handling the helm of the ship.

Nelson arrived in 2018 to replace

Tiago

and was promoted to second coach just a few weeks ago, after the farewell of

Mono Burgos

, who is waiting in Madrid for football to give him his first opportunity in the elite as first coach.

And, preferably, in the Spanish league.

So, as neither Simeone nor Nelson Vivas nor, obviously, Germán Burgos have been able to be physically present in this atypical rojiblanca preseason, fate has given a name and surname to a third piece, which arrived in silence and remains silent.

In fact, there is no official club photo of him.

"He is an assistant and normally we do not take photos of assistants," they point out from the entity.

His name is

Hernán Bonvicini

, he is 41 years old and he landed in Barajas just released in September, to complete the coaching staff of Simeone and fill the vacancy of Burgos.

When the athletic fans fantasized about the incorporation of

Gabi

, after ending his adventure in Qatar, suddenly, he appeared.

A stranger who, along with Profe Ortega in the physical section, Pablo Vercellone sharpening the goalkeepers and Simeone on the other side of the earpiece, has been forced to make the leap.

Although only until his superiors are restored to health.

Verón's 'push'

Bonvicini was playing as a central defender and a broken cheekbone forced him to start his adventure on the bench early.

Fate led him to direct

Juan Sebastián Verón

in

2012

at the

Coronel Brandsen Association

amateur club

.

A neighborhood team from the city of La Plata.

Their captain, Pedro Verde, was Verón's cousin and convinced him to accompany them on their adventure, despite having announced his goodbye.

They ended up winning the title and Verón, who would still return to the elite twice, both with Estudiantes, took note of that young coach, and would recruit him for the lower categories of the student club, after assuming the presidency.

In 2016, Hernán became the partner of Nelson Vivas in Students and, later, in Defense and Justice.

I talk to him every week.

I always try to use it so that he continues to help me and continue to grow ”, Bonvicini himself told the Argentine newspaper El Día, after the signing of Nelson Vivas by Atlético.

Surely he did not expect that, two years later, even if it were only a few days, he would be pushing the red-and-white stars with his intensity.

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