Simeone, like a good Argentine, speaks fluently, but his team's football does not lend itself to preliminaries. Atlético de Madrid does not court rivals, it enters them directly, as if both had matched on Tinder. If you can score without kneading the ball, the better. Two blows, two goals. It's not that he despises possession, make no mistake, it's that he values it as something qualitative, not quantitative.. And there is no better representation of that than Lino.

The Brazilian, with some hesitation in the preseason, has settled into Cholo's eleven on his own merits. He is a buffalo in defense and attack but, when he stops, he has good footing and that is a treasure that Griezmann almost took advantage of in the early stages of the game at the Sadar, as Morata did in the derby last Sunday.

He would do it shortly after, after a cross from the Brazilian that Morata failed to finish.. The Frenchman collected a rebound from Aitor, who is horrible in the play, and finished, almost without an angle and in a semi-miss into the back of the net. As I said, not a bouquet of flowers.

The French is sweet. In fact, he is among the top 5 players in Europe who participates in the most goals for his team.. The one who returned under his jurisdiction was Morata. Those about the mistakes and offsides, and their version was very far from the one shown against Real Madrid on Sunday.

Not so Saúl, whom Simeone praised in the preview, and rightly so.. The youth player has forgotten the star pretensions that brought him to London to return home with the “humility” that the Argentine coach highlighted.. That and the work have made him essential in a red and white midfield plagued by casualties.

Despite everything, and despite criticism from supposed experts and even colleagues, Cholo does appreciate the variants used by other teammates, better considered by this union and more bombastic in their game.. Hermoso, like Stones at Manchester City, stands in attack as a double pivot alongside Koke to help get the ball out. And that helps a lot to a sparsely populated midfield if we take into account that it is only occupied by three natural midfielders.. If he also saves several from Osasuna with providential cuts in defense. From 10.

Simeone's school

Another from Simeone's school is Arrasate. The Osasuna coach, who faces his sixth season on the red bench, has not been able to find the key this year. The team has personality and courage, but lacks success. They had two in the first half, both with direct play.

The first had been three passes until the ball reached Budimir who, when he saw Oblak, it became night. The second would be an individual play by Mojica whose shot at the short post almost dismantled the goal.. Beyond those two, highlight Chimy who, as always, harbored bad intentions but did not have support to attack the red and white goal.

However, his would be the mistake that could have given Osasuna the tie after a great collective play.. The Argentine, alone and without opposition in the athletic area, finished off due to poor body contouring in response to Areso's back pass.. The second part had just begun. It would have been a good psychological blow. And if not, ask Madrid. Two goals in the first five minutes of each half. A slab.

Kill or die

Despite the ruling, Osasuna decided to go out bare chested for the last 45 minutes of the match. They besieged Oblak's goal without the Cholo team being able to cross the middle line with the ball at their feet. The Argentine coach decided to take out Azpilicueta for Molina to shore up the trench in front of the goalkeeper.

The Slovenian, perhaps still stunned by the blow he had with Budimir, was on the verge of making a mistake when he lost a ball out of position that Hermoso had to save in extremis. Then he would redeem himself with a dry finish from Torró. Atlético needed him 100% because Osasuna's harassment grew with the minutes.

Controversy

So much so that he got a big scare in the 75th minute after a corner in the heart of the area that David García finished off without opposition.. Munuera saw a foul in attack, strange to say the least, and disallowed the goal to the frustration of Arrasate who would end up sent off.

On top of Atlético, five minutes later, a counterattack culminated between the two players fighting to replace Carrasco. Lino's pass and Riquelme's goal. Atlético invites you out, but when they have what they want, they send you home with the clothes in a bag. For dessert, several caresses between Morata and Chimy that earned them both a red card, but that's another story.

Atlético thus achieves its eleventh consecutive victory in the League against Osasuna. An impressive streak that brings them closer to the top positions after their six points in a row.

Jagoba Arrasate entered Dazn's post-match interview and you could see him biting his tongue before the question was asked. The rojillo coach had been expelled after angrily protesting a play that would have led to Osasuna's tie against Atlético de Madrid. The commentators explained that they had seen how Giménez pushed Aimar Oroz and he involuntarily hit Witsel. Munuera Montero, incomprehensibly, whistled for a foul on Oroz and canceled the subsequent header from David García that slipped into Oblak's goal..

“You already said it,” the red coach responded angrily before going fully into what had happened on the Sadar pitch.. “The treatment between the benches has been different from the beginning,” he complained and maintained that it is something they are used to, but he did not want to continue commenting on the controversy because, he insisted: “If I say what I think, I will be out for more games.”. The coach also mentioned that there was a lack of “freedom of expression” in LaLiga.

The coach was uncomfortable and his players were uncomfortable, who, like Pablo Ibañez, explained the game and assessed that the goal should never have been disallowed since the first one to push his teammate is Atlético's Uruguayan center back.. Furthermore, as can be seen in some frames, the ball had not been put into play before this entire sequence.. Another tough defeat for Osasuna, the eleventh in a row in the league against Diego Simeone's Atlético de Madrid.

The Argentine left very satisfied with his team's game and, above all, with the work of the two players who came to replace Carrasco. Lino and Riquelme received the highest praise from Cholo, but not the referee group that came out again in the post-match conversation with the Argentine coach and not precisely because of the controversial play of the match, which for the coach “had seen a Witsel hit” although He specified that he had not had time to see the play repeated.

Simeone entered the controversy that began with the words of the CEO of Atlético de Madrid, Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, revealed by Marca in which the manager assured that Real Madrid “adulterated the competition” with respect to arbitrations. “Gil Marín ends up saying what many do not want to comment. It is clear that after the match there was more talk about the referee than about what happened and I understand that it is a way of generating that stage fright that is generated when a referee receives what he received after the derby,” commented Simeone in the post-match..

This situation is generated as a result of some images from Real Madrid TV after the derby between Atlético and the merengue team in which they indicated that there had been several “blunders” by the referee team. “Four key mistakes” are cited during the match: a foul on Bellingham before Atlético's first goal, a hard tackle by Giménez that was not punished with a red card, a “badly disallowed” goal and a handball by Hermoso inside his own area.

The Italian Reinhold Messner is considered by many experts – by almost everyone – as the best mountaineer in history. In 1986 he was the first to complete the 14 eight-thousanders without artificial oxygen and before and after he climbed the unclimbable, opened countless routes, explored the Earth, like this, in capital letters. The Everest, the Annapurna, the Gasherbrum I… There are paths towards the roofs of the planet that he created, but there are also paths in Antarctica or the Gobi.. In recent times, now retired – today he is 79 years old – he has been the protagonist of a thousand controversies, some even against his former teammates, but there has never been any doubt about his figure.. Until this week. Messner ya no es Messner. Or so the Guinness Book now says.

As recently published by the famous record archive, Messner never reached the summit of Annapurna in 1985 and, therefore, the following year, in 1986, he did not become the first to climb the 14 eight-thousanders without using cylinders.. Nor were those who followed him, the Swiss Erhard Loretan (1995) and the Spaniards Juanito Oiarzabal (1999) and Alberto Iñurrategi (2002), if not the fifth on the list so far, the American Ed Viesturs, who achieved it in 2005. History, rewritten. Mountaineering, in the air. What happened?

Advancement, technology. Until not long ago, to certify a promotion it was enough to visit Elizabeth Hawley, legendary journalist, creator of The Himalayan Database, and show her proof of the feat.. It was rigorous, requiring photographs or videos, testimonies from other climbers, answers to very specific questions, but it lacked support. His work was artisanal, solitary. That is why with the passage of time, and especially with the appearance of the Internet, it began to lose prominence to the benefit of the 8000ers website, its creator, Eberhard Jurgalski, and his team of researchers.. When Hawley passed away in 2018, in fact, it was already 8000ers who confirmed the summits, the achievements, the records. And 8000ers wanted to take rigor in the mountains to another level.

The peaks are not the peaks

In 2019, with high-resolution satellite images and the help of the German Aerospace Center, Jurgalski and his assistants demonstrated that in eight-thousanders such as Manaslu, Annapurna or Dhaulagiri, the majority of climbers never reached the true summit: they only stayed close.. According to their work, only three men, Viesturs, the Finnish Veikka Gustafsson and the Nepalese Nirmal Purja, completed the 14 eight-thousanders, the first two without artificial oxygen.. According to their work, Oiarzabal and Iñurrategi stayed on a secondary summit of Manaslu, they did not step on the summit. And according to his work, Messner, the legendary Messner, was five meters short of actually summiting Annapurna.. For all these reasons, last year 8000ers rewrote their list and asked the Guinness Book of Records to do the same..

Until this week, this investigation had raised a certain stir, but the majority of those affected refused to give it importance.. After all, there have always been debates of this nature in high places.. But after the Guiness Book's decision on Messner, a reference among references, Himalayanism raised its voice.

“The goal is not the top, it is the path. My mountaineering does not know about records!” Messner exclaimed upon learning of the withdrawal of his record with an attached photo on his social networks in which he is seen climbing a huge ice wall on his expedition to Annapurna in 1985.. “Last statement on records in mountaineering! There are none! There will never be any in mountaineering! I appreciate all mountaineers, every mountaineer who has carried out their experiences on the great walls of this world,” ended and many of his professional colleagues accompanied him in his speech. Even Viesturs himself, now elevated, rejected the change: “Messner was the first, that recognition must be maintained. “He led the way and other climbers, like me, followed in his footsteps.”

The debate for mountaineering is now complex. He can walk away from 8000ers and the Guinness Book of Records, but that would leave him without notaries to certify future exploits or he can, as Jurgalski's own researchers propose, reach an agreement. To return the best in history to their place, we would have to forget the idea of the existence of a single summit, an exact point where the mountain ends, and accept that there is an approximate summit area. Delimiting this, especially in complex mountains such as Manaslu or Annapurna, will be complicated, but it will be more difficult to accept that Reinhold Messner, considered by many experts – by almost everyone – as the best mountaineer in history, does not really know all the roofs of the mountain. world.

The Court of Instruction number one of Barcelona ordered to intervene in the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) all the documentation linked to the Negreira case that affected the historic number one of Spanish arbitration, the recently deceased Victoriano Sánchez Arminio, and his main lieutenants. The order of entry and registration in the Technical Committee of Arbitrators (CTA), to which EL MUNDO has had access, authorizes the Judicial Police to confiscate all electronic devices and means of evidence that it considers appropriate to clarify the crimes investigated and extended the mandate to the entire former arbitration leadership.

In this way, the instructor stressed that, in addition to the documentation linked to Sánchez Arminio and his former number two José María Enríquez Negreira, the Civil Guard was authorized to confiscate any document linked to Ángel Franco González, also former vice president of the arbitration group.. Likewise, he extended the order to another veteran leader, the Galician referee José Ángel Medín Prego. The final objective of the judicial intervention is to document the degree of Negreira's influence in the CTA in relation to the promotion and demotion of members or their appointment to prominent parties.

As the Civil Guard pointed out in the report provided in the summary and revealed exclusively by EL MUNDO, Negreira thus had the capacity to considerably improve the remuneration of the members or, on the contrary, lower it.. Along these lines, the Judicial Police maintains that the former number two referee rewarded or punished the referees depending on whether or not they were like-minded and had direct control over the appointments.

This criterion, now shared by the investigating judge himself, completely contradicts that of the current heads of the CTA. Not in vain, the president of the referees, Luis Medina Cantalejo, and the former head of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, have been maintaining in recent months that Negreira “didn't matter or make any important decisions.”

For his part, Negreira himself admitted his ability to intervene in these matters in the statement he gave to the Tax Agency in October 2019, long before the scandal broke out.

Then, the historic referee leader said that he dedicated himself to “reviewing the reports that the referees make after each game and scoring them.”. In view of which, he added, “the referee could be promoted in category”. He clarified that he did not earn anything for his work at the CTA and that, furthermore, he did not want to receive any remuneration because “he already had his company and was paid by FC Barcelona.”. In fact, he indicated that his main objective was to ensure that Barça's arbitrations were “neutral.”

The Civil Guard drew attention in its latest report on this issue by adding a hitherto unpublished element. He discovered that Negreira forced his son to divert part of the money he received in parallel from FC_Barcelona for arbitration advice. And he highlighted that the concepts by which this transfer of Barça money between son and father was justified had to do precisely with the score of the referees after the League matches.. Therefore, the Armed Institute points out that the circumstance occurred that FC Barcelona ended up paying Negreira for functions that corresponded to him in the CTA.

His appearance before the Treasury was the last time that Negreira gave his version about his million-dollar payments from the Catalan club.. He has recently claimed that he suffers from considerable cognitive impairment that prevents him from giving a statement and the judge has ordered that a forensic examiner examine him to verify if this is true.

When in 2018 he was relieved of his position at CTA and the Barça club stopped paying him, Negreira threatened Barça through two burofaxes revealed by this newspaper in which he recalled that he had been charging in exchange for “favors and confidences” and that if payments stopped, it would unleash a great “scandal.”

The press officer of the women's soccer team, Patricia Pérez, declared in the National Court this Thursday that she had received pressure from Luis Rubiales and those around her for Jennifer Hermoso to give her approval, hours after the World Cup final. to a statement where it was said that Rubiales' kiss had been consensual. The judge investigating the Rubiales case has agreed to examine the messages on the mobile phones of Patricia herself and Jennifer Hermoso's brother.

Rafael Hermoso testified as a witness last Monday and ratified and expanded before Judge Francisco de Jorge the coercion reported by his sister. Today he returned to court to make his cell phone available and, with it, the messages exchanged after the World Cup final linked to Luis Rubiales' kiss to the soccer player.

As for Patricia Pérez, Poki, she has testified as a witness and also provided her terminal. Part of the interrogation has focused on the preparation of the statement with which a few hours before the incident the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) aired the thesis that Hermoso herself said that the kiss had been consensual.. The process of preparing the message is at the core of the crime of coercion that is investigated along with sexual assault.

Likewise, the person until recently responsible for integrity of the RFEF, Miguel García Caba, declared this Thursday. As in the case of the press officer, she has appeared as a witness, which means that the judge does not attribute criminal actions to either of the two.

A different case is that of the director of the Men's National Team, Albert Luque, and the former head of Marketing, Ruben Rivera, who had initially been summoned as witnesses this Thursday and, finally, will appear as investigated. Both have been accused of being responsible for the pressure on the player.. They are scheduled for October 10.

Before, next Monday, three of Hermoso's colleagues will testify before the judge and the Prosecutor's Office. These are Alexia Putellas, Irene Paredes and Misa Rodríguez, with whom the player supposedly vented her anger when she began receiving messages asking her to publicly support Rubiales' thesis.