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Carlo Ancelotti is back for another season at the helm of Real Madrid. Once again winner of the Champions League at the end of last spring, this time by beating Borussia Dortmund in the final (2-0), the Italian coach won his 5th C1 as a coach, and already the 3rd with the Spanish club after 2014 and 2022. At 65, he is of course more towards the end than the beginning of his career, but despite his age and the generation gap with his players, he improves with age, like the good wine of which he is a great lover, as the good epicurean that he has always been.
He has a contract with Real Madrid until 2026, which leaves him two more seasons. And what about the future? It will probably be time to take a well-deserved retirement.I think this will be my last club, I have to say.” he announces in the podcast Obi One by John Obi Mikel, his former player at Chelsea. And to hear him tell it, the defeats are still just as painful, despite the many titles he has won during his career. “This is my 29th season as a coach. It’s true that I’ve won a lot of things, but imagine the number of titles I’ve lost. I’ve lost a lot of things.”
Ancelotti no longer wants to be coach
A way of looking at things that must make most coaches smile yellowly, those who have never won anything; the vast majority. Ancelotti of course jokes about this situation and measures the exceptional path traveled. “I was lucky. I coached the best team in England, Spain, Germany, I was lucky.he continues. I was able to adapt to the culture. I tried to learn languages. I learned English, Spanish, French, I couldn’t learn German, it’s impossible – not difficult, impossible! he said, smiling.
His future could have been written elsewhere than in Madrid this year. Last winter, he was close to joining the Brazilian national team. The president of the federation had even officially announced it, a little prematurely since Ancelotti never came. It seems that the position of coach is no longer something that motivates him.If there was an opportunity for a national team? I don’t know. I’m not very enthusiastic about that idea because I would lose what I like the most, the daily grind. It’s the daily grind that I like. Being here, preparing for training, talking to the players, preparing for the matches.” That’s what is said.
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