Diogo Jota, the diamond that Simeone rejected

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In 2016, the "scouts" of Atlético de Madrid noticed the 19-year-old

, who stood out in the modest Portuguese club Paços de Ferreira, and bought him for 7 million euros.

Today, after being discarded by Simeone in 2018, he triumphs in the Premier League and makes

forget

in the Portuguese team.

When he was 19 years old, in the 2016-2017 season, he was acquired by the mattress club and played on loan at Porto, which was coached by

and where

.

Despite his young age, he made a hole there and became one of the sensations of Portuguese football during that campaign, especially for his ability to build offensive football and for his ability to define with his left foot, despite be right-handed.

In 2016, during an interview with EFE, he recalled that his football was born on the street and showed his personality by ensuring that he was not compared to any other player, since he had "his own style."

In the summer of 2017, as in 2016, he was once again part of the preseason under

, where he had a special relationship with Griezmann, Koke, the Brazilian Filipe Luis or the Portuguese Tiago, he confessed to EFE.

However, the Argentine coach did not see it clearly and gave it up again, so Nuno Espíritu Santo, who had left Porto, played him back for Wolverhampton, which started an ambitious project to consolidate in the English Premier.

There, Diogo Jota began an idyll with England and with the Wolves fans, who went crazy with the young Portuguese footballer.

For this reason, in the summer of 2018, the English team activated the purchase option on the player and bought him about 20 million euros.

Atlético, even without Diogo Jota making his debut, had made money with the young promise that was formed in the Portuguese quarries of Gondomar and Paços de Ferreira.

To Liverpool for 43 million

However, the

English

would manage to revalue a young player who had more and more gallons (44 goals and 19 assists in 131 games) and who last summer became the desired of

, for which Liverpool spent 43 million euros for Diogo Jota to be part of the

.

Meanwhile, Atlético de Madrid had already disbursed in the summer of 2019 a total of 126 million euros for the most outstanding attacker of Benfica,

.

Fate and

covid positive

caused João Félix and Diogo Jota to form the attack of the Portugal team that beat Sweden 3-0 on Wednesday.

The first goal was scored by Bernardo Silva after assistance from Diogo Jota.

The second goal was certified by Jota himself, who assumed the pressure of being the substitute for the Portuguese star.

With 2-0 on the scoreboard, Joao Félix missed a clear in front of the goalkeeper and a few minutes later Jota did not forgive after a play on the left in which he got away from two defenders and scored a book to seal the final 3-0 and become in a new hero of the Portuguese fans.

It was the dismissal of Simeone in 2018, who preferred to bet, a year later, on João Félix.

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