Two weeks passed in frightened silence until a photograph calmed them, and now, there's excitement and optimism all over again. On June 14, Diego Simeone posted a picture on Twitter that showed him sitting alongside Miguel Angel Gil Marin, Atletico Madrid's CEO, and Andrea Berta, the sporting director. Below was a short, simple message that might have not have mattered in any other context but was huge amid the quiet. This was the news they had all been waiting for, and he knew it.
"Working in Buenos Aires," it said.
That was the first thing Simeone had said since May 28, and the last thing he had said back then, late on a Saturday night at San Siro, was that he had to think.