{"id":8226,"date":"2026-10-13T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankrollatlas.com\/fr\/actu\/koke-out-against-manchester-united-after-the-death-of-his-mother\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:23:38","slug":"koke-out-against-manchester-united-after-the-death-of-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bankrollatlas.com\/en\/news\/koke-out-against-manchester-united-after-the-death-of-his-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Koke out against Manchester United after the death of his mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second league-phase fixture tonight at the Metropolitano, where Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid host Manchester United. Without their captain. Koke, 34, lost his mother on Tuesday morning; the club announced his absence<\/a> a few hours before a kickoff set for 9pm local time.<\/p>\n

The club\u2019s message<\/a> does not hide the grief: \u201cTonight, before the start of the match against Manchester United, a minute of silence will be held in memory of do\u00f1a Ana Merodio Borja, mother of our captain Koke and of Borja Resurrecci\u00f3n, assistant coach of the Juvenil A, who passed away this morning in Madrid. Rest in peace.\u201d The player is \u201cdeeply affected by this bereavement\u201d, the club added, offering its support in an \u201cespecially painful\u201d ordeal.<\/p>\n

Koke is the most capped player in the history of the Colchoneros, more than 700 appearances in red and white. He had featured in every Atl\u00e9tico match this season, wearing the armband whenever he started, from the opening fixture against Liverpool to this European night. No replacement was named in the statement.<\/p>\n

The visitors arrive with their own clouds: this morning we looked at how Michael Carrick faces up to Manchester United\u2019s results crisis<\/a> before this trip to Madrid, with the Conte rumour doing the rounds. Kickoff stays at 9pm; before the ball, the Metropolitano will observe a minute of silence, and Atl\u00e9tico will walk out without the man who has worn the armband all season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid face Manchester United tonight without their captain: his mother died on Tuesday morning. A minute of silence will be held before kickoff at the Metropolitano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image-id":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image-id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ba_sport":[],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nChampions League: Koke out against Manchester United<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Atl\u00e9tico Madrid host Manchester United without captain Koke, who lost his mother on Tuesday. 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