While all Real Madrid awaited Pep Guardiola’s arrival with skepticism… Erling Haland next Monday in Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti He spent months with the Cup final fluttering in his head. In February, Jagoba had predicted to Arrasate, half jokingly, half seriously, that Osasuna and Real Madrid would meet in the final at La Cartuja. And weeks later, in the most difficult moment of this season, he sent a message to those who doubted him when he was close to being eliminated from the Cup after losing in the first game with Barça and leaving the league in a draw at home with Atlético. and the noble coat, including some of his crew.
Message to sailors from Ancelotti
“If we win GlassWe will have won every title a club has ever won in just two years. There are many people who cannot say because they have never done this”, remembered the challenger Carletto Before the news that drove him away from the white bench if he was eliminated in the Cup against Barcelona.
With this, Ancelotti revealed something that has been around for a long time: squaring the circle. Whatever happens against Manchester City in the Champions League and whatever about its continuity at the end of the season, take the trophy and complete all the championships with Real Madrid as the white coach in this second stage. Carlo is a man who has short goals, enjoys the journey and reaches manageable milestones along the way.
trophy because florentino perez He landed at Real Madrid, the rivalry that the club most insulted. Five finals with only two titles in 23 years, the last of which was won by Carlo Ancelotti himself nine years ago. title of champion of Spain, always worn by the person who lifts the KO Cup at the end of the season, seems unattractive to the president’s galactic ambitions. However, Ancelotti sees the Cup as a very “football” competition.
A locker room that has never won
Maybe that’s why it impressed the locker room aspiring to win this title because, in addition, the current roster often never won it. Only Nacho, Carvajal, Modric and Benzema have raised a Courtois who has done so as an athletic player. But now they have the opportunity to achieve that and add, for example, Toni Kroos’s record of winning all possible club titles except this one. Add to that the World Cup and will only miss the European Cup when he retires, something that will probably happen in June 2024 after he completes his newly contracted extension year with the club.
Since Carletto landed on the white bench on June 1, 2021 replacing Zinedine Zidane, his deputy, Under the Italians, Real Madrid has won the League, the Spanish Super Cup, the Champions League, the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup. The only thing missing is the King’s Cup and he will have completed the perfect journey in two seasons. There is no need to insist on this, but Ancelotti is the most successful manager in football today. He is the only person to win the five major leagues (England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France), the most Champions League winners, two with Milan and two with Madrid, and the manager who has won 25 titles in his career. stand
Despite this, he has always been a meticulous coach as well as ambitious. Although he was not the first option to replace Zidane (Massimiliano Allegri, Mauricio Pochettino and Antonio Conte rejected Madrid’s offers), when Florentino knocked on his door, the Italian met with Everton, with whom he had a contract until 2024. confectionery They opened the exit door. “I want to thank Everton, their players and their fans. But I decided to leave because I have a big challenge ahead of me,” he said.
Square the circle and then… Brazil?
Even the most optimistic would not have thought that Ancelotti would be in a position to complete the hoop after just two seasons. It’s true that Florentino lost his shine looking at him and that part of Real Madrid was lazy to keep seeing Carlo on the bench. However Once the Trophy in their Circle is won, What is your big short-term goal? then you will calmly see what your body wants next season. More importantly, knowing that he received a seductive offer from Brazil to make him their coach, Something that would be the perfect pinnacle for a coaching career where the club will no longer exist. He decided long ago that Real Madrid would be his last. However, even though his friend Jagoba, whom he respects greatly as a coach, tries to avoid this, he wants to square the circle first.