{"id":428057,"date":"2026-05-06T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428057\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:34:11","slug":"diego-simeone-pushes-ex-atletico-madrid-chief-andrea-berta-as-staff-forced-to-separate-pair-before-arsenal-celebrate-progress-to-champions-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428057\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Simeone pushes ex-Atletico Madrid chief Andrea Berta as staff forced to separate pair before Arsenal celebrate progress to Champions League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clash between Simeone and Berta carried extra weight given their long history together in Spain. Berta served as a key figure at Atletico Madrid between 2013 and 2025, working closely with Simeone for over a decade before his eventual move to Arsenal. Despite the physical altercation on Tuesday night, Simeone had previously spoken highly of the Italian professional.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on their time together in January last year, Simeone said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t give a judgement on what the club decides. I&#8217;m grateful for the work Andrea has done with us, we had a very healthy relationship, without agreeing on some things as happens, but looking for the best for Atletico. He gave everything he could to Atletico, I thank him for this time and I wish him the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clash between Simeone and Berta carried extra weight given their long history together in Spain. Berta served&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4026,111144,4488,135577,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-428057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-champions-league","tag-d-simeone","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}