Carlo Ancelotti leaves Madrid, but Madrid does not leave Ancelotti. Because here it has been, it is and will remain happy and because your family has thrown roots in our country. Carletto does not exaggerate when he says that the Real Madrid bench is the best place in the world. And it is happy here walking through the city center, visiting museums with Mariann, going out to eat those restaurants that they like so much, or cooking that paste so celebrated by their guests, children and grandchildren.
Ancelotti returned to Madrid at a time of his life in which he understood that he should enjoy every day of those left on the benches, especially if he was in a 'big' one. He arrived after two seasons in Liverpool where Everton employees, a family club with a taste of those that Carletto likes so muchthey fell in love with their way of being. Picked up the toffees When he looked dangerously at the descent in the 2019-20 season and after saving the team, he left at the end of his second year leaving him comfortably installed in the middle of the Premier table.
400 press wheels and not a reproach
The Italian returned to Madrid, where He was ceased in his first stage for being too condescending with the costumes. His “left hand” took its toll after winning any title. Florentino tightened the rope and he refused to get the whip and point to the players to save his post on the bench. With time Pérez has reconsidered, understanding that he would not find a coach for Madrid with more common sense and emotional intelligence than the Italian. And Carlo has remained loyal to the locker room and the club until the last day.
Ancelotti had known for months that the club was moving to channel Xabi Alonso's return. And he has not said anything. It has been four years and more than 400 press wheels in which neither Florentino nor his players can reproach him anything. He assumed the mistakes as his, protected his players and washed the club's dirty clothes at home. “Since I am here, Real Madrid has signed Camavinga, Rudiger, Tchouameni, Bellingham, Mbappé … could I ask for more? No,” he warned a week ago when he was asked if he felt that the club had not backed him when bringing reinforcements, especially in recent years with the streak of injuries. It was his last great service to the club, with Dean Huijsen announced minutes before, because the reality is that Madrid ignored him when he requested a central and a midfielder two summers. He even gave names (Saliba, Akany, Macallister and Tonali), but never publicly reproached José Ángel and Florentino to disregard him when signing.
Carlo Ancelotti, along with Arrigo Sacchi and Pep Guardiola in a tribute that was made in Trent / Real Madrid
His wardrobe will be the one to miss him. Rudiger will never forget the day that while he premiered his house in Madrid with a barbecue, the bell rang and Ancelotti appeared with a bottle of wine to celebrate with the German family the advent of the new home. Vinícius has taken him to eat more than one and more than twice to reassure him, like Rodrygo. That paternal treatment has made him more than a coach. Carlo won the respect of his players for what silences and for those human details that transcend sports and have confirmed to their players that beyond Ancelotti is always Carlo.
The barbecue with the Rudiger, the meals with Vini, the talks with Jude …
Bellingham did not finish being like a scorer, no matter how much Ancelotti insisted on convincing him. “You have Zidane things in the middle, but you also have Kaká things when you reach the area. And we cannot waste it, ”he insisted. Benzema has just left and nobody would arrive to replace him. It is curious, because the ancelotti coach of his beginnings would never have believed in the Jude Bellingham who plays between the lines.“ I remember that in the parma I could sign Roberto Baggio, but I stopped. He had a football style that put the players in the areas and had no midfields. I discarded it because I had Enrico Chiesa and Hernán Crespo. ”4-4-2 was unnegotiable … until Zidane appeared. He was so dazzled by the luminous presence of the French, who erased his blackboard and began drawing another football. More flexible, more pragmatic, even more poetic. That ability to adapt to the players, and especially to the presidents, he has become the coach more of the football elite.
Florentino is hard, but nothing to do with Silvio Berlusconi. In May 2007, Milan reached the Champions League final in Athens against Liverpool by Rafa Benítez. It was the revenge of the historic comeback in Istanbul, only two years before. Berlusconi insisted that the final Alberto Gilardino played, a battering ram through which he ended up signing him from Parma, where he had scored 24 goals in a season. However, Carlo had other plans. Filippo Inzaghi had only scored two goals throughout the year in series A, but Carletto knew that 'Pipo' was sharpened instinct when the big games arrived. When it was announced that it would be Inzaghi headline, Berlusconi called the coach in a unreasonable manner coming to say little more or less than if they did not win the Champions League, his commitment to 'Pipo' would cost him the position. Milan won the 2-1 final with two goals from Inzaghi, and during the celebration in the grass the photographers gathered Ancelotti with Berlusconi to portray them with the trophy. Then Carlo said: “Wait a moment. Pipo, come here! The hero of the party cannot be missing.” And Berlusconi, reluctantly, took the photo with Inzaghi because of Carletto's retrance. That image occupies an outstanding space in the Ancelotti house.
Carlo, in love with flamenco and impenitent jokes, both in Spanish and in Italian, no longer reaches helicopter training, as he did in Parma, where the license was drawn to pilot them. In Brazil he will put his players again Al Pacino's speech in 'Anyway' or will quote Roberto Benigni and Robert De Niro, his favorite actors. Now Ana, her Sevillian daughter -in -law, You will have to buy two Brazil t -shirts for Leo and Lorenzo, the twins. Because grandfather and dad leave “to Real Madrid from the selections”, as Carletto likes to say.
These days the squad was putting together an farewell to Ancelotti at the height of everything they have lived together. “It has marked us all. In sports and especially personally,” Dani Carvajal confessed. Carlo cried in his office on the day that the side suffered the worst possible injury that can be had in a football field. He also did the day Casemiro went to say goodbye before leaving for Manchester. Now life will gather them again. Surely this Saturday a tear of emotion will be escaped by being fired in the Bernabéu for his family. Madrid loses a coach and the club wins another Madrid player.
