Diego Simeone

Biography

Diego Pablo Simeone (born April 28, 1970 in Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires: Capital and largest city of Argentina; located in eastern Argentina near Uruguay; Argentina's chief port and industrial and cultural center) ) is an Argentine (Argentine: Any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes) football (football: Any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal) midfielder (midfielder: in association football a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between...
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In his club career that started in 1987, Simeone played for Vélez Sarsfield (Vélez Sarsfield: vélez sarsfield is an argentinian football (soccer) club, based in buenos aires....
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For Argentina, Simeone, nicknamed El Cholo, amassed 106 caps, the first coming in 1988. He played in the 1994 (1994: more facts about this subject) , 1998 (1998: more facts about this subject) and 2002 (2002: more facts about this subject) World Cup (World Cup: A soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion) s. It was in the 1998 Cup that he was part of an incident with David Beckham (David Beckham: more facts about this subject) ; the English star kicked Simeone and was sent off. Never a big scorer, Simeone has scored 11 goals for his country.

Although intimidating on the field, Simeone is humble off it, calling it an "embarrassment" when he passed Diego Maradona (Diego Maradona: more facts about this subject) on the Argentine cap list.