The latest River champion

The history of River Plate in the last decade is a roller coaster climbs and steep vertiginous drops mark the passing of one of the most popular clubs in the world, as you know, now plays for the first time in its long history of their games in the B experienced a dramatic decline after a few months ago. In recent years, millionaires and again flirted with the abyss, just before the stranger saved by promotion and relegation system designed to favor large, so bad he had to do La Banda Blood to book a place in the B . Today River champions rescued at the last, that of the Clausura 2008, framed within the context of a club in freefall and has several points in common with the Spanish football today.

And in the 2007 Apertura, River finished last in the table. The club coached by Daniel Passarella, now president of the company and former leader and captain in the field, fell into a void from which it was able to escape: a team with no soul, no spirit and conviction, all that was left over the Kaiser Argentina when battling in the green. River finished the Apertura championship with Passarella and outside the bank, last and hunt for a technician to return the glory to the club of La Plata. After leaving the scene several names like Ramon Diaz, Carlos Bianchi and Americo Gallego, was the youngest person he finally chose: Diego Pablo Simeone.

Like just a few weeks ago, Simeone came to a big club but demoralized, downcast. Doses of strength, moral and character needed to win the new coach to breathe River, and was exactly what he did today coach of Atletico Madrid. A technician with very clear ideas in his second coaching experience in students, managed to lift the Apertura 2006. He knew what he was to win as a player and coach. In Monumental knew his team would not give away evenings of brilliance and excellence as in the days of Enzo Francescoli, but as yours would leave him everything in the field to achieve victory.

There, as shown in the image, two players were highly prized today and this season have come to the Spanish league after paying a large sum of euros: Radamel Falcao and Alexis Sanchez . Thus, the arrival of Atletico Simeone has meant a reunion with the Tigre. He also wore the shirt of two players with a past River zaragocista: goalkeeper Carrizo, one of the pillars of that tournament, and the environment Leo Ponzio, in this winter has left the market Romareda to help return to Millionaires the top flight as soon as possible. Others like Abelairas also be smoked or key the victory.

But besides the everlasting Ariel Ortega, who was still teaching classes from the hook despite their field issues, the star of that team does not play today or in the Atletico Barcelona: it does in Malaga, and is eventually Buonanotte Closing enshrined in that tournament scoring nine goals, a number of beautifully crafted, and assuming a nightmare for opposing defenses with his dribbling and speed. Thus, not surprisingly, Simeone claims him on his arrival at Calderon, who finally set.

Alexis Sanchez, 19, began to point out the ways that later confirmed at Udinese, while striker Falcao was already a renowned and followed by clubs like Milan, but far from the numbers today. In fact, it was not until his arrival at Oporto when their numbers multiplied. He was played nine years with Abreu, another old friend who came with Simeone as star signing, but did not confirm the expectations set just a couple of points. Falcao finished the tournament with six touchdowns.

River showed the hallmarks that define today Atletico a solid team, tight, regular, very difficult to win and overcome the defense. Rarely earned more than a little, but he won. Reached the end fighting for the title with rival La Plata, Estudiantes, where Cholo had won his first title. Despite falling in the classic, more bellows River reached the end of the season and that is where his neighbors won the coveted title that did not come from 2004, too long for a big club.

But, far from being the beginning of a new era of success, River fell in defeat. Her start in the next opening was disappointing and at the end of the tournament could not overcome the fourteenth position. The drop in performance showdown Buonanotte and Ortega were key technical, and the breakdown of the stands with the players was another chapter in the progressive decline of River to hell. Simeone would resign later this year and even then it would sound to the bench for Atletico seemed that his steps were again doomed towards the Manzanares.

The rest of the story I know: the poor performance River ended in the second category, where today they try to return to the elite of the hand of Trezeguet, Ponzio, Cavenaghi and company, Almeyda on the bench. The bad moment it goes across the Argentine football needs all its pillars are at the forefront, so you need the Monumental stadium again be first.

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