This was assured by the Italian Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid coach He will retire once his stage in the white team is overa decision he believes makes sense since Real Madrid “is the pinnacle of football”.

“This stage in Madrid puts an end to my career. After the whites I leave it. Real Madrid is the pinnacle of football, it makes sense to end this experience here “, he explained in an interview with ‘Il Messaggero’ published this Saturday.

After winning the European Super Cup, Ancelotti add a total of 24 trophies as a coach: “I’m not passionate about calculating. I’ll do it at the end of my career, when it makes sense to take stock of my work.

After raising ‘the Decimocuarta’, the Italian coach has not lost his competitiveness and is clear on his main goal for this season: “The ‘Champions’. Because of the history and the degree of difficulty. The size of Madrid is that. special club for this European competition “.

And he made it clear that the team’s dressing room is “healthy”, with “humble players” and in which the “human component” reigns.

“Madrid are a serious team, with humble players where even the stars have their feet on the ground. The group is healthy, well managed by the most experienced: Modric, Casemiro, Benzema. The quality is indisputable. However, alone it would not be enough to guarantee results and trophies: the human component is fundamental. And this Real is truly unique in this “.

As for the championship season that starts this weekend, ‘Carletto’ sees it as more balanced than last season.

“More fought than last year, Barcelona have become stronger. Sevilla are still competitive, even after the starts and Atlético are solid. In Bilbao there is an experienced coach like Valverde and Gattuso’s Valencia bring with them a city and an important history, “he said.

He also appreciated the arrival on the Roma bench of his Portuguese team-mate José Mourinho, with whom he revealed that he remained in contact: “Mourinho has entered the history of Rome very well. We talk often, we send messages. Roma needed a coach like him and they needed the affection of a team like Roma. “

The Qatar 2022 World Cup, which will be played in November and December, will interrupt the national championship for the first time, which has generated uncertainty among the coaches, who do not know how their players will return after the tournament. Ancelotti confessed that he is more concerned about the mental state than for the physical one.

“The world post is the real question mark. The main problem will not be the preparation to be redone, but the mental aspect. Normally after a tournament of this level the players go on vacation, but this time they will have to go back to the base and go back to work , they will not go out and this is the real question: what will their physical and mental health be when the championships start again?

The Italian coach is clear on his commitment to raise this world championship: “Brazil and France are the strongest teams, so I say Argentina, there is always Messi“, even though he focused on three other teams.

“Spain is the other great country to keep an eye on. I add England and Germany, teams that have started a process of renewal,” he said.

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