Diego Simeone
Head coach · Club Atlético de Madrid
The longest-serving manager at a Spanish elite club and the author of its identity.
Profile
Simeone's Atlético won two league titles by inverting Spanish orthodoxy, compactness, verticality, and the deliberate surrender of possession. The current tension is whether he can rebuild a third team, this time as a proactive side, without discarding what made the first two work.