Diego Pablo Simeone This is also the story of the Spanish League. The Argentine entered the Top ten coaches with the most games coached in the first division and, barring any catastrophe, will finish the season very close to the top five. Cholo He has 482 appearances for Atletico in the top category and against Espanyol he left the Welshman behind. John Toshack. His next target is a former rojiblanco coach like Fernando Daucikwhich only six games separate him. Of course, it seems difficult for him to be able to surpass Luis Aragones, undisputed leader with a stratospheric figure of 756 matches. He takes no less than 274 from Simeone, who It would take more than seven seasons complete to surpass it.
Cholo is just 18 games away from reaching 500a figure that only seven coaches have reached so far in the highest category, two of which Ernesto Valverde of Athletic and Víctor Fernández are still active in Zaragoza, although in the case of the Aragonese, he does not currently have the possibility of continuing to add because his team is in the second division. At least, I should wait until next season.
With the numbers in hand, Simone, under contract at Atlético until 2027, will finish the season 24-25, leaving behind Fernando Daucik, Joaquin Caparros And Javier Clemente, which would earn him access to seventh place in the ranking. This, of course, is on condition that the engineer Manuel Pellegriniwho has a six-game lead over the Argentine, ends the season with Betis. The Chilean only has 12 games left to reach the half-thousand mark.
As per what Simeone signed, he would still not be able to reach the top three since he would not reach 600 games, a milestone that only Javier Irureta and Miguel Muñoz are creditedand that Cholo will only reach in 2208. Much further away is in fact the first place in the ranking, held by Luis Aragonés, and this, in pure logic, seems inaccessible.
In March 2023, Simeone surpassed Luis Aragonés himself as the Atlético Madrid coach with the most games managed, with 685 by 612 by Hortalezabut the difference is that the Argentine only coached the rojiblancos in Spain, while the Madrilenian was also on the benches of Barcelona, Valencia, Betis, Sevilla, Espanyol, Oviedo and Mallorca.
Top Ten First Class Coaches:
- Luis Aragones726 matches
- Javier Irureta612
- Miguel Muñoz608
- Victor Fernandez544
- Ernesto Valverde523
- Javier Clemente511
- Joaquin Caparros510
- Fernando Daucik488
- Manuel Pellegrini488
- Diego Pablo Simeone482
