Enrique Cerezo breaks the silence after Florentino Pérez’s last dart: “We are not committing suicide”

Enrique Cerezo would not want a lot to reply. The president of Atlético de Madrid obtained one of many Espiga del Deporte Awards this Thursday in Villanueva del Pardillo and, virtually in passing, he left probably the most elegant response attainable to the phrases of Florentino Pérez, who days in the past had stated sarcastically in an interview with La Sexta: “Final yr we received two titles. Is that not legitimate? Do we’ve to win the Champions League and the League? Then the vast majority of golf equipment should commit suicide.”

Cerezo’s response was as direct because it was efficient: “We aren’t committing suicide, we’re joyful and can attempt subsequent yr to enhance what we’ve carried out this yr,” he said with a phrase that doesn’t want embellishment and that the red-and-white parish has obtained with the identical irony with which the membership responded on social media with the RAE’s definition of “obsession.”

Cerezo defends Atlético’s season

Enrique Cerezo additionally took the chance to make his personal evaluation of the season, with out drama and with the attitude of somebody who is aware of what it has value to get to the place Atlético has reached this season: “I feel we’ve had an excellent season. Now we have been within the remaining of the Copa del Rey, we’ve been within the semifinals of the Champions League and we’re going to end third or fourth within the League,” he said.

An sincere abstract with out exaggerations. The Cup was misplaced on penalties, the Champions League was one purpose away on the Emirates and the League will shut with qualification for the subsequent version of the European match. It isn’t the yr of titles, however it isn’t a season to cover your head both, and Cerezo makes it clear naturally.

The irony of the red-and-white president

The funniest second got here when the journalists insisted that I consider Florentino Pérez’s full and controversial statements from latest days. The Colchonero president, not too long ago arrived from a visit to Mexico, remained in his place patiently: “I simply arrived from Mexico and, the reality is, I swear that I do not know something about something. I do not know what he stated, I’ve to listen to it,” and in response to the insistence: “I repeat once more that I simply arrived, that I have not realized something,” he said.

Florentino Pérez doesn’t relaxation properly at night time fascinated about Atlético de Madrid. He has nightmares in regards to the Metropolitano since what occurred with the concert events. He remembers Atlético in any space. He’s obsessed pic.twitter.com/QmWqnUP8KS

— Pascual Ruiz Arnal (@pascualruizar) Could 13, 2026

Cerezo closed his speech with a message for the subsequent season that completely summarizes Atlético de Madrid’s aspirations: “Properly, let’s have a great season and have the luck like this one to succeed in the finals. And win them,” he concluded. Reaching the finals has already proven that this workforce can do it. Profitable them is the problem that is still and subsequent yr it can as soon as once more be the principle goal, as at all times.