Football Soccer - Atletico Madrid Training - San Siro Stadium, Milan, Italy - 27/5/16 Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone with his players during training Reuters / Tony Gentile Livepic
MILAN (Reuters) - Atletico Madrid's rise to the top of European football has been a refreshing lesson that money cannot buy everything, yet they can still be hard team to like.
Neutrals are torn between admiration for the way in which coach Diego Simeone has transformed and reinvented his side over the last four years, and discomfort at the defensive tactics and gamesmanship that have been used to achieve it.
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