Parricidal duel in Vitoria, the Simeones face each other for the first time after Giuliano's injury: "It would be incredible to play but the important thing is to win"

Diego Simeone returned from San Francisco from the preseason with Atlético de Madrid at the beginning of August when he received the news of what had happened to his youngest son from his first marriage.. The coach, as soon as he landed in the capital, took the car, picked up his wife and headed to Vitoria where Giuliano would be operated on for a dislocated ankle and a broken fibula after a tough tackle in a friendly against Burgos.

“Thank you very much to everyone who was concerned and attentive.. Giuliano is already recovering and in very good hands,” was the text that the Argentine coach wrote on social networks accompanying a photo in which he appears shaking hands with his son after his surgical intervention.. Almost half a year later, the footballer returned to the pitch and this afternoon he has a parricidal duel in Mendizorroza.

“Physically and mentally I am already 100% recovered and with the minutes I am having on the field I feel much better. Personally, I'm also very happy,” says the player in the run-up to a “very special” match for him personally and very important for his team, which is only seven points away from safety.

Alavés, the team in which Cholo's son has played since this summer, faces Atlético de Madrid, a club to which he belongs and in which, for 12 years, he has had his father sitting on the bench. A team that already put the rojiblancos in trouble at the Metropolitano, although they ended up losing by two goals to one.

Simeone's son predicts an equally complicated match in Vitoria. “It will be a very disputed duel because Atlético does not negotiate the effort. You have to play an almost perfect game to get the three points. The two teams never give up a ball for lost,” he commented in a recent video.

Giuliano knows Atlético well. He was a player in the red and white quarry, which he joined from River Plate's youth football team.. Since he was little, he not only stood out as a forward, he also transcended the celebrations of the red and white goals by hugging his father when he was a ball boy for the first team.

His first professional experience came at the age of 20 when he was loaned to Second Division club Zaragoza.. There he was one of the most outstanding footballers of the team, finishing as top scorer with nine goals.

Atlético understood that they needed to continue working hard and this season they decided to give him up again.. On this occasion he went to the Vitorian team with which he suffered that mishap from which he recovered, during the first month, in Madrid with his partner and family.. Meanwhile, the player who injured him, Matos, a former Sevilla youth player and Burgos defender, continued to receive threats and calls of “murderer” or “butcher” on social networks.

Giuliano is a young man very attached to his people, as can be seen in his publications on social networks.. There are numerous images that show him not only with his father, but also with his brothers, also footballers.. Giovanni, who plays for Napoli and Gianluca who is playing for Tudelano, of the Second RFEF. He is also seen with his stepsisters, daughters of Carla Pereyra and Cholo.

This afternoon there will be another family photo, a new memory for the Simeone album. Only, as the meeting ends, one will show a wide smile and the other, probably, will not have the best of faces.. “It would be incredible to play, but the important thing is the three points,” confessed Giuliano. Father and son agree on what is important.