Athletico Madrid coach arrested for assaulting his wife.

Atlético Madrid’s fitness coach Oscar Ortega was arrested during the early hours of Tuesday morning in relation to a domestic violence incident and has been taken to the main police station in the Madrid suburb of Majadahonda, police in Madrid have confirmed to Spanish newspaper, AS.

The 60-year-old Uruguayan known as ‘El Profe’ (The Teacher) has been a long-time member of Diego Simeone’s backroom staff and came to the club with the Argentine coach in 2011.


Ortega became part of Simeone’s backroom staff in 2006 after the two got to know each other at Atlético Madrid, where Simeone was a player at the time and Ortega was the fitness coach for then-manager Gregorio Manzano, who lasted one season at the club in 2003-2004.