Godin: Giuliano always came to mess with us when he was a kid, he liked it, like a warrior

Hupu News on November 18 Diego Godin, the former player of Atletico Madrid, was the most dazzling guest at the fourth conference of the International Federation of Clubs and Fans Clubs held in Cordoba last weekend. More than 80 fan groups sent representatives to participate in the conference. He looked back on his Atletico career at the meeting and specifically mentioned Giuliano Simeone.

When Simeone took over Atletico Madrid, Giuliano was only ten years old. Godin recalled some of the times players would tease him when he came to Madrid to visit his father. "It helped shape his personality. When he came to visit his father, he liked to come into the dressing room and mess with us, poking him here and there. Diego Costa, Miranda, me... we would all get involved a little bit... We would put him in a clothes trolley and wheel him away, and in the winter we would throw him in a bathtub full of cold water. "He would run to his dad crying and tell him we were bullying him, and Simeone would say, 'You deserve it, just stay away.' And then he would come back and want to play us again, and he loved it, that's the character he had, aggressive, like a warrior," said the Uruguayan.

Godin continued to recall: "He was with us on the plane, on the bus, and during meals. He liked it very much. We also regarded him as one of our own. He was like a little brother. Seeing a young man who was born from Atletico Madrid, I felt Very happy. Now he is playing in the first team. When a player has real emotion for the shirt, he always gives something extra, and Giuliano can give you that. He may miss goals, but he always gives everything extra. Finally, he responded to those who said that Giuliano can only play because he is the son of the coach: "What can I say, I don't know what kind of football they are watching. He plays because he has earned this opportunity with his performance on the pitch. He is playing for Atletico Madrid." He's doing the right thing, we've all seen him play well, but as long as his father is the coach, that's a cross he'll always bear. I don't think he was selected for the Argentina national team because he's Simeone's son.source:7n cn