How Atlético conquered its eleventh league: Koke's WhatsApp, Simeone's order and Llorente's tip

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Evening falls on the Wanda Metropolitano.

The sun flees in a hurry in an Atletico Madrid.

It is May 23 and more than 24 hours have passed since

took charge of executing the intrigue.

He did it with the

longest

of his career, while

yelled at the top of his lungs: «Alone!

only!".

It happened on the lawn of José Zorrilla, while thousands of throats, radio earpiece in the ear, mobile devices to satiate the nerves, shouted with delay the goal that was worth the eleventh Atlético League.

The second in the Simeone era.

Suárez would have been of little use without

for eternity

.

The typical auction of the smartest in the neighborhood.

While Real Madrid died on the shore.

It is already night in the capital, but the party dawns within the walls of El Gran Escenario, a strategic restaurant a few meters from the Metropolitano, where

, without

, hugged his guitar and sang the match for the last time. It is May 24 and a few hours ago that Atlético received the League champion trophy on the Wanda table. A gala with the stands in silence, like the 38 days that he was climbing towards that unimaginable conquest the previous summer, when it seemed that the transition was sinking in

, after the painful elimination in the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Leipzig.

Often times the best creations spring from unexpected moments of inspiration.

The 2020/21 course was something like this.

So much so that the matter gave for a documentary: Another way of understanding life.

The idea, a bit out of superstition, would not take hold until dawn in 2021.

«Five days ago I got together with the people who receive you at the entrance of the club, the first ones the footballers see, and I asked them instead of saying" good morning "to welcome us with a" we are going to be champions "", he revealed Simeone from the José Zorrilla press room, after winning a crown that makes him unique in the club's history: with eight titles he surpassed

.

"We are the fucking Atleti"

It was the League of the iconic Fiat Panda, after the storm Filomena. That vehicle lent by a neighbor that

,

and

to get to training, despite the snow. It was the League of the almost coronavirus outbreak, with that black February that could end the dream. Simeone suddenly lost

,

,

,

,

and

for the inopportune British variant. The League of sanction to Kieran

, Marcos Llorente's ideal partner, for that fatal bet on his signing for Atlético, still in England, which cost his team a good headache. It was that of a handful of sweet memories that seem now to be blurred, after the four defeats in a row with which that same team has fired an unforgettable 2021.

Suddenly, in April, after falling in San Mamés, with the path to the title steep, an audio from Koke's WhatsApp appeared as if by magic, which ended up serving as a harangue for a group and a hobby whose faith was sinking.

We're fucking Atleti, man.

You know that we are never going to win anything easy.

The more difficult we have it is when we get things out.

The easier it is, the worse for us ”, proclaimed the captain in a talk (a priori personal) that ended up going viral.

Months later, Koke laughed at that moment in one of the cuts of the film that illustrates the eleventh League of the rojiblanco club.

"It seems like it was a dream"

It is dawn in Madrid and there are still those who continue to look at Neptune with the eyes of a lover. Simeone's girls sleep at home, while Dad, the most awarded coach in the history of the entity, lifts his napkin and smiles to celebrate at the restaurant table. Also

, always stealthy, with the fifth Zamora Trophy in his pocket. And what about

, who gave meaning to everything with his revenge. The Suarez zone, a term patented by this newspaper and warmly embraced by Simeone, made sense with those two goals against

and

. Geniuses always come out of their lamp on time. I could never have imagined a better revenge.

Soccer has no memory. That is why, just seven months after that silent conquest, without witnesses in the stands, there is hardly a small embers left, like this memory for the yearbook. The League was inevitable for Atlético just a year ago and ended up being entrusted to two final miracles. Two comebacks to remember. Like the one that emerged after the hydration break before Osasuna. "Looking back, it seems that it was all a dream," they recall from the club's offices, while

, the common denominator of the club's last three league titles (in 1996 as a player), who has just completed a decade on the bench , launches the umpteenth soflama to his own, after four consecutive defeats in the League, something unprecedented since his arrival in 2011.

Don't talk to me about resisting / It's my Atleti de Madrid / Don't come to me with regrets / I'm talking about surviving

, keep shouting that anthem of Leiva and Sabina.

The soundtrack of those 38 episodes on the way to heaven.

AND IN 2022 ...

COPA DEL REY.

Since 2013, with that conquest at the Bernabéu, the KO tournament has turned its back on Simeone's.

On January 6 (21.30) they start their adventure against Rayo Majadahonda, in the Metropolitano.

2021 started with a slap in Cornellà.

SPAIN SUPERCUP.

On January 13, at the MrSool Park Stadium in Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, the rojiblancos face Athletic in the semifinals.

Three days later, on Sunday 16, the final will be played.

It will be the first title option.

CHAMPIONS.

The assault on Porto was worth the closest round of 16 ticket of the decade.

On February 23, he awaits a first assault against Manchester United, at the Wanda.

The return will be on March 15, at Old Trafford.

Always, yes, with permission from the Covid.

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