The scoring gene of the Simeone that Cholo did not have

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It never hurts to contextualize, especially when there is a soccer ball involved.

(1995) came to the world in the middle of July in Madrid, while his father was preparing without knowing it for the assault of that historic Atlético Double.

Giuliano

(2002) was born in Rome, where Diego Pablo was finishing his last sips in Serie A, wearing the Lazio jersey.

After a few months, already 33 years old, he would return to Madrid to live his last adventure as a rojiblanco footballer.

(1998) broke

in, who was presented to the world in Buenos Aires, a few days after the Argentine team of Daniel Passarella, led by his father, fell in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in France.

precisely

played that World Cup as a left winger, before the overdose of midfielders (Almeida, Ariel Ortega, Verón) that moved the heart of the albiceleste. «I have played in all positions except goalkeeper. The coach,

, told me that he saw me as a lane and then I, who wanted to play as it were, felt like the best lane in the world », Simeone acknowledged dates back, in a talk with

in the country'.

That speaks (and well) of his ability to adapt but, above all, of that versatility that he values ​​so much today as a coach and that he displayed on the field.

However, although the goal was not alien to him, it was always very far from approaching the profile of a forward.

A mutation that, for example, he did achieve from the bench with

.

Hand in hand with Vlahovic and Immobile

Paradoxically, the goal runs through the veins of his sons, who combine that warrior spirit intrinsic to the Simeone surname with the fang in front of the opposing goalkeeper.

A punch that has multiplied in the case of Giovanni and Giuliano, during the first overflowing and sharp months of the season.

Gio, as Giovanni is known footballingly, is the third top scorer in Italian Serie A. Although he had already left details in Genoa, Fiorentina and Cagliari, it was at Hellas Verona (on loan from the Sardinian team) where he has exploded, with 12 goals in 18 games. Only

(16) and

(13) they add more hits than him. Meditation, for about 10-15 minutes a day, is one of its secrets. Before his biggest day, with that poker game against Lazio in a 4-1 win, he watched a Rocky movie to boost his motivation. His mind and spirit, like his father, never rest. «It occurred to me to look at Atlético's training sessions, trying to study their offensive phase and use it at Cagliari. It was a way to grow during the quarantine, "he recalled a little over a year ago.

Giuliano turned 19 on December 18.

And he did it as the top scorer in the Atlético B group in the RFEF Third Division.

He has signed 11 goals in 18 games.

Eight of them in the last eight games of the championship.

His sense of smell, in addition to his incessant fight, is one of the virtues that keeps the rojiblanco affiliate at the forefront of the standings, in search of an obligatory and necessary promotion, after the hit of the previous season.

From the River Plate quarry

In the summer, in the absence of the Eurocup and the America's Cup, Giuliano was the second outfield player with the most minutes of the preseason (357 in five games), only surpassed by

. He lacked aim (he did not score), but he had surplus delivery, runaway in search of each ball. In a few days the Copa del Rey will arrive (January 6). And against Rayo Majadahonda, leader of the RFEF First Division, he could debut in an official match with the first team.

"It is very difficult to have a son in the locker room: for him, for the relationship ..." Diego Pablo admitted a couple of years ago, when Gio, a teenager when his father landed on the Atlético bench, began to call the Attention from the rojiblanca fans for their targets in Italy. Now, both he and his little brother, all chiseled in the River Plate quarry (also Gianluca, Ibiza striker of the Second RFEF), are a possibility that a large part of the faithful mattress makers would not dislike. Perhaps the one who would have it less clear would be his own father, who enjoys the progress of his children from a distance, paying off the debts in those high-voltage games on the green of the home garden.

In the Atletico Academy they often repeat that if Gianluca had not been called Simeone, he would probably have had more participation in the first team.

And, perhaps, Giovanni, who now shares a dressing room with

, irrelevant in his only season at Atlético, could also have tried in his native Madrid.

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