🚨🥹 Diego Simeone, trying to hold back his tears, shows his appreciation for Antoine Griezmann:
"Before asking all the questions that were planned, I wanted, both from my perspective as a coach and as an Atlético de Madrid fan, to take this opportunity, being here today in a press conference with Antoine, to thank you for all your work and for your humility. You are an admirable person for today’s young people in a society that needs people like you.
Thank you for everything you’ve given us, everything you continue to give us, and everything I’m going to ask you to keep giving. Thank you for your commitment, for the way you’ve always conducted yourself as a professional and as a person, knowing how to separate that beautiful relationship we have as a family without crossing that difficult line between coach and player, whether friend or not. I see you first as a player, and then as a friend.
There are eight league matches left, one Copa del Rey match, and, God willing, we will play five more games in the Champions League. So I invite you to keep enjoying it. I love you very much. If any Atlético de Madrid fan were here today, they would say the same words to you. I feel completely identified with them.
I am your coach, you know that if you don’t run tomorrow, you’re out. And that’s it. Sorry, I just wanted to say these words."