“I Pronounced His Wife’s Name”- Filipe Luis Apologizes to Angel Di Maria & Exposes Sergio Aguero

Filipe Luis hung his boots on December 6 this year, playing his last match for Flamengo. After a storied career across Europe and South America, the defender recalled his time with Atletico Madrid, for whom he made 240 appearances over two stints. But there is one particular match he feels remorse about even to this day. In a recent podcast, he revealed the ‘greatest regret of his career,’ that involved an on-field confrontation during a derby with then Real Madrid’s Angel Di Maria.

Luis and Di Maria butted heads numerous times. The Argentine, however, got the best of the Brazilian on the grandest stage. In 2014, Real put four past Atletico, in a 4-1 defeat for Luis in the Champions League final. Years later, now having retired, the left back couldn’t help but apologize to Di Maria for a trick that he used which led to a verbal confrontation during a game in 2010.

Filipe Luis apologizes to Angel Di Maria, calls out Sergio Aguero

In a recent appearance on ‘The Charla Podcast,’ Filipe Luis revealed how he still feels bad for trash-talking Angel Di Maria. “If there is something I regret having done, perhaps it is the only thing I really regret, and I would like to go back in time and not do it, it was against Di María,” said Luis.

“I arrived at Atlético, we were going to play against Real Madrid and Agüero told me: ‘Filipe, if you approach him, he will lose, he will leave the game. Go see him and talk about his wife. And I arrived and said: ‘your wife..’, I pronounced his wife’s name… He looked at me, he was downcast, I won the whole game,” he added. Though this was a trick used by him to make Filipe lose his composure

Though the ex-Chelsea star lost two Champions League finals, he can never this biggest career regret he made and ended the conversation with a heartfelt apology to his ex-opponent,“Di Maria, I’m sorry, I’m sorry I did that, I’m sorry” (Auto-Translated by YouTube).

Luis joined Aguero at Atletico in the 2010-11 season, the last before the beginning of the El Cholo era. When we examine the Madrid derbies during Luis’ first season, it was Los Colchoneros who took the beating.

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Aguero and Luis get their hopes dashed, and Diego Simeone returns

When Filipe Luis joined Atletico Madrid, they faced Real Madrid in four matches that season, twice in the league and twice in the Copa Del Rey. All four times, Angel Di Maria’s Real Madrid had the last laugh. Before the season, however, Aguero had strong affirmations for his side. He told radio station Cadena Cope, “We’ve got a good team. We’ve got a team that should win at Madrid one of these days. Hopefully, it will be this year.”

Aspirations aside, Atletico manager Gregorio Manzano was subsequently dismissed in late December after a defeat to third-tier Albacete in the Copa Del Rey. A day later, Diego Simeone, an icon of the club, returned to the Metropolitano Stadium as manager. Having led the Spanish side to eight trophies and with a mastery over “the dark arts,” he remains their most successful manager, as he guides Atletico through their 12th season.

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