{"id":30830,"date":"2016-12-20T03:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T03:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=30830"},"modified":"2016-12-20T03:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T03:17:45","slug":"atletico-madrid-coach-simeone-says-he-loves-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=30830","title":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid coach Simeone says he loves challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-30829\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Diego-Simone.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" alt=\"Diego Simone\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Diego-Simone.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Diego-Simone-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Diego-Simone-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Madrid: Atletico Madrid chief coach Diego Simeone on Monday said he loves challenges and thrives under difficulties, while admitting that the capital football club must improve.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico are sixth on the La Liga table, an underpeformance for a club that reached two Champions League finals in the last three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the Copa del Rey tie against Guijuelo at Vicente Calderon, the Argentine coach explained that he is not worried because he can adapt to face any problems, reports Efe.<\/p>\n<p>Simeone pointed out that he is well aware of his team&#8217;s need to improve and achieve results in La Liga, but Atletico started both the Champions League and Copa del Rey in good form.<\/p>\n<p>He asserted that Atletico will continue fighting in the coming year until the end.<\/p>\n<p>The coach confirmed that goalkeeper Miguel Angel Moya and Italian Alessio Cerci will be included in the squad for Tuesday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico will have an easy second-leg game against Guijuelo, which was thrashed 0-6 in the first leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-30829\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Diego-Simone.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" alt=\"Diego Simone\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Diego-Simone.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Diego-Simone-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Diego-Simone-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Madrid: Atletico Madrid chief coach Diego Simeone on Monday said he loves challenges and thrives under difficulties, while admitting that the capital football club must improve.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico are sixth on the La Liga table, an underpeformance for a club that reached two Champions League finals in the last three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4243,16258,1343,466,12791],"class_list":["post-30830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-diego-simeone","tag-football","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atletico Madrid coach Simeone says he loves challenges - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=30830\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atletico Madrid coach Simeone says he loves challenges - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Madrid: Atletico Madrid chief coach Diego Simeone on Monday said he loves challenges and thrives under difficulties, while admitting that the capital football club must improve. 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