All the records of Carlo Ancelotti: “It feels like a dream, don’t wake me up”
All Carlo Ancelotti’s records: "It feels like a dream, don’t wake me up"
Winning his fifth Champions League as a coach, which came almost ineluctably tonight at Wembley, fuels the myth of Carlo Ancelotti even more. For more than 40 years, first on the field and then on the bench, the man from Reggiolo has accumulated successes and records, and one wonders what goals he still has to chase after winning it all. Last year’s renunciation of Brazil’s offer and his choice to stay at Real Madrid earned him the Champions-Liga-Spanish Super Cup hat trick, the premise of more triumphs in the two-year contract he has left to honor at the Merengue household. Adored by the players, idolized by the fans, 'Charlemagne' è a boast of Italian soccer, which has somehow lent him to the world to be its ambassador.
After his many successes as a footballer between Roma (a historic Scudetto) and AC Milan, once Ancelotti took the bench he began to grind out successes, becoming the only coach in the history of soccer to have won the title in the five major European leagues (Italy, England, France, Germany and Spain, with AC Milan, Chelsea, Psg, Bayern and Real) and the only one to have won the Champions League five times. His career on the bench began in 1995 at Reggiana, in Serie B. He later coached Parma (1996-1998), Juventus (1999-2001) and Milan (2001-2009). At the helm of the Turin club he won a Uefa Intertoto Cup in '99 while at the helm of the Rossoneri he won a Scudetto, an Italian Cup, an Italian Super Cup, two Champions Leagues, two Uefa Super Cups and a World Cup. Between 2009 and 2011 è he was on the Chelsea bench, winning the Premier League-FA Cup double.
In the 2011-2012 season è he took over running on the bench of Paris Saint-Germain, with whom he won Ligue 1 at the second attempt, in 2012-2013. In the summer of 2013 è he was hired by Real, with whom he è won the King’s Cup, the Champions League, the Super Cup and the Club World Cup. At Bayern Munich in 2016 he won the Bundesliga, and between 2018 and 2021 he coached Napoli and then Everton, two not-so-good experiences that seemed to have made him lose his magic touch. But in 2021, back on the Real Madrid bench, he reopened his personal trophy cabinet to put in two Champions, two domestic titles, two Spanish Super Cups, a club world cup, and a Uefa Super Cup. In 2020, for Paris Saint-Germain’s 50th anniversary, è he was named the best coach in the club’s history, and in 2019 the French magazine France Football listed him among the 50 best coaches in soccer history. Five years and many trophies later, è it is time to update the ranking again, but perhaps it is not needed.
“It feels like a dream, sì this second leg of mine here at Real feels like a dream, and hopefully I won’t wake up”, Ancelotti told Sky Sports microphones. "What did Florentino Perez say to me at the award ceremony? 'We think about the 16ª'. He è the key to everything, today surpasses Bernabeu as the most successful president, Florentino è another legend, congratulations to him who è a great president". Very nice, at the end of the match, also the image of Bellingham giving him a bow and the hug with Kroos, who is leaving soccer in a month. "To Toni I said thank you for everything,” says Ancelotti, “è it is difficult to leave, and it is difficult to accept it, but he leaves raising a Champions Cup, and very few people have done it. "Tonight you don’t sleep", concludes the Real coach.
