Let's make the most of this teasing look, these mischievous eyes and this incomparable dress class.
Carlo Ancelotti will officiate again this season on the bench of Real Madrid, which starts the championship on Sunday evening in Almeria, but for how much longer?
Nobody knows yet.
The only certainty: the merengue bench will be his last.
"Don Carlo" swore this Saturday in an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero: at 63, he will not seek any post once his second adventure with the White House ends.
“This stage in Madrid will end my career.
After Los Blancos, I will retire.
Real Madrid is the pinnacle of football.
It makes sense to put the word
end
after this experience”.
24 trophies and two heart clubs
On May 28, by winning the Champions League at the Stade de France, he became the most sacred coach in C1 with four titles ahead of Zinedine Zidane and Bob Paisley.
The first two trophies date back to his love affair with AC Milan (2003, 2007) with which he had already established himself as a player (1989,1990).
And the third to his first experience on the Madrid bench (2014).
A few days earlier, he had already set another record.
He is the only technician to have reigned over the five major European championships (Milan, Chelsea, PSG, Bayern Munich and therefore Real Madrid).
"If we talk about trophies, Los Blancos and Milan are the teams I feel most connected to," he confessed on Saturday.
Carlo Ancelotti explains to Movistar: “No, I don't smoke cigars!
It was only a photo with my friends.
Yes, these players are my friends”.
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“24 titles in my career?
The truth is, I don't really care about those accounts.
I will do them at the end, when a balance sheet will make more sense.
Now I focus on training, I like day to day work, he added.
A few years ago my priorities were tactical, now I focus on human relations, getting to know people and new generations.
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A time sent to the bench of Canada
This interview puts an end to several months of rumors of all kinds.
Retirement was mentioned but it was only one option among others.
Some sent him to lead the Canadian selection with a view to the 2026 World Cup that Canada – where his wife is from – is organizing with the United States and Mexico.
It would therefore be nothing.
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His contract with the reigning European champion ends in June 2024. But it would be very daring, one way or the other, to imagine the farewell ceremony falling at this time.
Leading Real Madrid teaches you the notion of precariousness.
But also loyalty.
“If Real keeps me here for ten years, I will train for ten years”, had slipped “Il mister” last May at the microphone of Prime Video.
