Doublet of Atletico Madrid 1996

Last update 28 February, 2022 by Alberto Llopis

Doublet of Atletico Madrid 1996 He happened to the history of the club mattress. After three seasons in which the club coaching change came five times in the same season in which the mattress were about to descend, especially in the seasons 93/94 y 94/95, the club chaired at that time by Jesus Gil was going to radically change the course of its history in that decade.

Doublet of Atletico Madrid 1996, something totally unexpected

The summer was running 1995 when the controversial athletic president signed the Serbian coach Radomir Antic. The coach, He had led rival, Real Madrid a few years earlier, where he was sacked when the team marched leader with enough points lead in a league that then lost in Tenerife, the first of them. Antic came preceded by a campaign in Oviedo.

Along with the Serbian coach came players like Lubo Penev, Jose Molina was key, but above all to what may have been the best signing in the history of Atlético de Madrid in terms of quality-price ratio for sure.. Milinko Pantic a Balkan player who at that time already had 29 years and played for the Greek Panionios. Antic was so convinced of his worth, he even offered to pay himself the 75 the hoary million pesetas it cost his signing. He surprised by the arrival of an unknown player to a club like Atletico Madrid.

The until then unknown player was the best player in that tournament along with Pedja Mijatovic who played for Valencia that season. Pantic was also revealed as one of the best free kick takers What has that sport given?, He had a glove on her leg, where he puts the eye, He puts the ball. With a spectacular class, let goals and assists of all kinds and all bills while staying at Atletico.

The Copa del Rey won in Zaragoza against Barça de Cruyff

Other key players in the doublet were also some of the players who already had several seasons at the club but for various reasons, They had failed to perform to the level expected of them. Doublet year, was the year of Simeone, Kiko, Juanma Lopez, Enter, Roberto, Ann, Toni, Juan Vízcaino and José Luis Perez Caminero. All of them, They scratched at a spectacular level and formed by Pantic, Santi, Molina and Penev among others, a real team with all the letters.

The mattress Rayo high throughout the tournament as getting memorable victories won in the Nou Camp. Despite dominating practically the championship throughout the season, it was not until the last day when athletic could celebrate the title. The person responsible was Luis Aragonés's Valencia who had a memorable season that almost led the Valencian team to win the League title.

Finally they had to settle for second place. What times those in which other teams other than Real Madrid and Barcelona, They could access the two highest positions of the table. As an anecdote, say that the real Madrid 1995-96 It was the worst in modern history in that season since he did not even manage to enter Europe in an event that has not been repeated.

He 25 May 1996, Atletico was crowned champions after beating Albacete at the Vicente Calderon with goals from Kiko and Simeone. A month before, in April, Atlético had won the Copa del Rey in Zaragoza, against Barcelona a Cruyff, He is exhausting its stage in the club. The goal was the work of Milinko Pantic.