Intro:

Diego Simeone talks on Wednesday (22nd April) after his Atletico Madrid team go out of the Champions League to rivals Real.

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SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diego Simeone, Atletico Madrid coach

"I´m proud of my team. One more time we played very well, in a very difficult competition. Arriving to this position made me think I have a man's team, a team that works. We can play worse or better, but the players have pride, and I'm grateful to train with these players. And about Arda (Turan) red card, I don't want to say anything because the match ended and what I can say will not change the future things."

SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diego Simeone, Atletico Madrid coach

"I think the team has suffered in the first 10 minutes because of the possession of the ball, and because of the intensity of the rivals game, then the game was equal, even though the rival controlled more of the ball possession but we covered the spaces in the pitch, and we were working for the game that we wanted to do."

SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diego Simeone, Atletico Madrid coach

"When I was a little boy I learnt that in the games you must compete. When you compete and you give your life, even though you lose you go home happy, because you gave your life, you sweated the T-shirt. When the team works as hard as today there are no bad sensations. I´m proud of my players. I think a lot of coaches will be jealous of my players, because they launched themselves head on, they ran the 90 minutes and they never backed away from challenges. And we have to congratulate our rival because they played very well, they scored a great goal, and now we have to think in the match against Elche we need to win."