Trainer also practices self -criticism
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Carlo Ancelotti looks at his end at FC Bayern with negative feelings. The 66-year-old, who has been a Brazilian national coach since June, was responsible for Munich between July 2016 and September 2017. In his new biography “The dream: How to win the Champions League”, the Italian will look back on his episode at the German record champions. “”Picture“Published exclusively in advance.
“I had now been released four times by big clubs: Juventus, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. From which it is not necessary to do not need any erratic president or unpredictable owner so that you can be sawed off. A company can do the shareholders,” said Ancelotti. “It was the most ruthless discharge of my entire career. After I finished, they reached the semi -finals in the Champions League and failed there – advise you! – Real Madrid.”
In the pre -season, the FCB had won the championship with a 15 -point lead. Nevertheless, there is said to have been disagreements between the team and the trainer at the time. Leaders such as Philipp Lahm or Xabi Alonso, who ended their careers in summer 2017, would have complained about the “inadequate training work” under Ancelotti in the club in the club. In the 2017/18 season, Arjen Robben is said to have claimed, in the D youth team of TSV 1860 Munich, in which his son plays, is being trained better than in the professional team.
Ancelotti now explained: “We distanced the competition in the Bundesliga this season (2016/17; editor), had fifteen points ahead and five points more when Pep had laid in the two years before between his team and the second of the table. However, this was not the case with Bayern. It was the least that was expected.”
Ancelotti’s constellation error cost him coaching job at FC Bayern
Ancelotti promoted himself with a surprising line-up at the important Champions League game in Paris, which was supposed to end with 0: 3 from Bavaria’s perspective. “Against Paris Saint-Germain, I decided to do without our aging wing tongs and let our defenders move on while we mainly moved through the middle to attacks,” recalled the veteran. Jérôme Boateng, Mats Hummels, Franck Ribéry, Arjen Robben and Kingsley Coman were not taken into account for the starting XI. “It was a mistake. The balance was not right, and so they could mix up with their counter game. They scored their first goal in the second minute. The final result of 0: 3 was Bavaria’s most violent defeat in the competition for 21 years.”
Just before in his coaching career, Ancelotti left a team after such a short time: He trained Reggiana only during the 1995/96 season. Until then, he had never been released during a season. The same thing happened to him at his subsequent Station SSC Naples in December 2019. “As a coach, you cannot have your most prominent players as opponents,” said Bavaria’s then President Uli Hoeneß to the radio station “FFH”. “I got to know a saying in my life: the enemy in your bed is the most dangerous. That’s why we had to act.” Ancelotti is considered a “star whisperer”, who is said to have a good relationship with eccentric top players. At PSG he trained Zlatan Ibrahimović, at Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo. In Munich, the relationship with Lahm and Alonso was actually considered good – that in turn with Ribéry and Robben as tense.
Ancelotti also gave the best in his biography that he did not want to be said to have everything from Munich: “Once the bosses asked me to provide more discipline among the players, and put a list of five points to read the players. In my opinion, however, we were dealing with a top -class professional team and not with a youth team, so you should deal with the players accordingly. I stood in front of the team in the changing room, pulled the sheet of paper out of my pocket and said, ‘I have order from the board to read this list here.’ That was my way to distance myself from this task. “
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The ancelotti friend and biographer Chris Brady had seen the reasons for the discharge in the team in October 2017 and said: “Carlo is pragmatic, he always tries to deal with the conditions as much as possible. But Franck Ribéry has not been good enough for international top levels for two years. Arjen Robben also has increasing difficulties.” The Starcoach told him that he always expected a farewell from Munich: “Carlo is drained, empty. He often made the joke that he was a member of the world’s largest club for a long time – the club of the dismissed coaches.” A fact that was surprising, because Ancelotti’s contract on Säbener Straße originally ran until 2019. “Carlo always knew that he won’t be there after the season,” said Brady.
With Real Madrid, Ancelotti won the premier class three times and twice with AC Milan. He became a champion in all top leagues in Europe: in Germany (Bavaria), England (Chelsea), Spain (Real), Italy (Milan) and France (PSG).