On June 1, 2021 the real Madrid made the hiring official Carlo Ancelotti as coach of the white team after the departure of Zinedine Zidanewho left office due to disagreements with Florentino Perez. After a couple of calls and lightning negotiations, the white club announced, six years after his dismissal, the return of the artificer of the Tenth to lead a transition season.
The election generated surprise, sowed doubts and raised suspicions, among other things, because Carlettoseated on the Evertonseemed to have left the benches of the highest level after his successful passage through Juventus, Milan, Chelsea, PSG, Madrid or Bayern Munich. Nor did it seem a good omen for the whites that coaches of the stature of Pochettino, Allegri or Conte refuse to take the reins of a project under construction.
Thus, the affable Italian returned to Chamartin with a three-year contract and the challenge of winning at least one title after a blank campaign. A year later, the Madrid of Ancelotti has closed in style a course for history with the Spain Supercup, The league and the crown jewel, the Fourteenth Champions League won against Liverpool on May 28 in Saint-Denis.
The brilliant management Carletto has allowed the Madrid rule with an iron fist in the domestic championship to the point of becoming champion in April with four days to spare and, in the Championshis skill with the changes was essential in the three historic comebacks against PSG, Chelsea Y Manchester City. Courtois Y Benzema They did the rest for Madrid to take a historic Orejona.
A hard-won continuity
That’s the way it is, Carlo Ancelotti He has finished the course as the great winner of the benches and has earned a continuity that came to be questioned after the disaster in the Classic of the Bernabéu in March. That 0-4 was the only mole for a team that recovered wonderfully from the blow, raising its level both in the League and in the Champions to take the double.
After a well-deserved vacation, Carlo Ancelotti will return to the ring on July 10 in Valdebebas with a very high personal challenge: to reach a third season in a row at the same club, something he has not achieved since he spent eight seasons on the bench at Milan (2001-2009).
Since then, his brilliant resume has been as full of titles as it has been lacking in continuity. He is the only coach to win the five major leagues (Italy, France, England, Germany and Spain) and no coach has won more European Cups than him (4). Since his departure from Milan, for which he directed 420 games in seven and a half seasons, Ancelotti has not reached his third season on the bench Chelsea, PSG, Madrid (first stage), Byesterday, Napoli and Everton.
In London he had his first experience outside of Italy, winning the Premier in his debut and also an FA Cup. After completing two courses, the second in white, Roman Abramovich decided to dispense with his services in June 2011.
Months after his dismissal from Stamford Bridge, in December, Nasser Al-Khelaifi struck down Antoine Kombouare and handed over the keys to the first superproject of the PSG a Ancelotti. With the course halfway through, the Italian was not enough to win Ligue 1, something that he would do the following year after the arrival of the platoon of new signings, among whom were Pastore, Motta, Matuidi, Gameiro or Ménez.
As he confessed in Valdan Universe, Ancelotti made the decision to leave PSG at the end of his second campaign when he did not feel the support of the leadership. His destiny was real Madridwho called him to put out the fires caused by Mourinho’s management.
In the Madrid his career began to go off without a hitch, with several of the mainstays at their best level (Cristiano, Di Maria, Pepe, Ramos, Xabi Alonso), reinventing modric from midfielder to interior and with key signings such as bale and Isco. Displaying a solid showy game, the Madrid was proclaimed champion of Cup and of Championsarguments that validated its continuity in the 2014/2015 season.
That campaign the Madrid It went from more to less (it won the Super Cup and the Club World Cup) until it ended with the team being cast and without the League or Champions. The triplet of Barca did not help improve sensations and Carlo Ancelotti was fired by Florentino despite the fact that the Italian had the explicit support of the locker room, who came out to claim his continuity through the mouths of heavyweights such as Ronaldo either bouquets.
Short-lived adventure in Munich
When Pep Guardiola communicated to bayern in 2015 that he would leave the club at the end of his third season, the Bavarian leaders announced, on December 20, that the transalpine would take over from the Catalan. In his first campaign, Ancelotti gave continuity to the work of his predecessor and that gave him to win the Bundesliga by inertia but not for the longed for Championswhere he was dismounted by the Madrid In rooms.
In his second year, problems with the heavyweights in the squad surfaced, as many of them blamed him for not training much, and at the end of September 2017, after falling to PSG 3-0, the club announced his dismissal.
Between your goodbye Munich and his arrival at Napoli for the start of 2018/19, Ancelotti experienced his period of greatest inactivity since he began his career on the bench in the 1995/96 campaign, at Reggiana. In the partenopeo team, again, he hit the wall of the second season and was fired in the middle of the 19/20 course, before the pandemic, with the Naples seventh in the A series and qualified for the round of 16 Champions.
From Naples to Liverpool in 11 days
Just 11 days after leaving NaplesAncelotti received the call from the Everton to take charge of the toffee team for 4 and a half seasons replacing Duncan Ferguson. well settled in Goodison Parkhis stage ended in May 2021 when he received the call from Madrid.
“Thanks to Florentino and José Ángel for calling me, I’ve come back to life,” he declared. Ancelotti after winning the League in a recurring message of thanks to the Madrid. At 62 years old, and when he seemed in the twilight of an enviable career, Ancelotti He has a new challenge before him, that of reaching his third campaign in a club. It won’t be easy because it’s about the Madridan entity that has traditionally been a trainer shredder.
Ancelotti’s games as manager
A.C. Reggiana: 45 games (1995/96):
Parma: 87 matches (1996/97 and 97/98)
Juventus: 114 games (98/99, 99/00 and 00/01)
A.C. Milan: 420 matches (02/01, 03/02, 04/03, 05/04, 06/05, 07/06, 08/07, 09/09)
Chelsea: 109 matches (2009/10 and 2010/11)
PSG: 77 games (2011/12 and 2012/2013)
real Madrid (1st stage): 119 matches (2013/14 and 2014/15)
Bayern Munich: 60 games (2016 to 2017)
Naples: 73 games (2018/19 to 20)
Everton: 67 games (from 2020 to 20/21)
real Madrid (2nd stage): 56 games 2021/22
Total with Madrid: 175 matches.
read also
Bale, destination Wales
Getafe encourages the transfer market
Pepe Gil-Vernet
