Atletico Madrid legend Filipe Luis - 'The one thing I regret was talking to Angel di Maria about his wife'
Atletico Madrid legend Filipe Luis has admitted that his biggest regret in football was using underhand tactics against Los Colchoneros’ greatest rivals, Real Madrid. More specifically, it was a game against Angel di Maria that Filipe wished he could have back.
Left-back for Atletico and Brazil, right-winger for Real Madrid and Argentina, Filipe and di Maria had no shortage of bad blood or clashes during their time against each other. Recently retired, Filipe spoke to ‘Charla’ podcast, as carried by Diario AS, Filipe explained that one game he tried to take di Maria out opf the match by any means possible.
“I arrived at Atletico, we were going to play against Real Madrid and Aguero told me: ‘Filipe, if you get close to him, he will lose himself, he will be out of the game. Go see him and talk about his wife. And I arrived and said: ‘your wife, I cursed him, I said his wife’s name… He looked at me, he was crestfallen, I beat him the whole game. And he really didn’t do well in the game.”
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