The coach leaves Everton and returns to Madrid after six successful years He signs a contract in 2024: “A club that has remained in my heart”
the character
Carlo Ancelotti closed the door of Real Madrid after winning the historic Decima, a desired Champions for 12 years, a King’s Cup, a European Super Cup and a Club World Cup. The photo with him on the threshold of the Valdebebas sports center has become the most theatrical farewell of contemporary football. And today it completely changes meaning because he comes back.
Everyone knew that he had been replaced despite the successes, he already knew the game too well to be sorry and Real, as always, were in a hurry: forward the next one. Now the scene goes back, Ancelotti moves backwards and the door reopens on a three-year contract that moves one of the most successful coaches in history from Everton to Madrid and says a lot about the need that today the great teams have to rely on guides safe, expert hands, people with managerial skills. Clubs seduced by the idea of the Super League have returned to the past. Juve got back home with Allegri, who was certainly a good name for the Real bench as well, and Madrid got Carletto back. We need someone who knows how to restore tranquility to destabilized environments and also a more serene image to the disoriented public.
Ancelotti is the type of coach who during the lockdown, the first, with football and existence blocked, phoned older subscribers to find out how they were doing, he is the one who in the middle of a comeback blows on hot coffee: it happened on the overtaking of his team against Mourinho’s Tottenham, 5-4, minute 97 of the fifth round of the Fa Cup. Ancelotti is in love with the ball but with life more and is also savvy for years of driven Berlusconi for which he can withstand megalomanias by Florentino Perez without being overwhelmed. He is aware that with such a president the door in the face can always come, but also that this time at the stellar Real they really need someone who knows how to play down. That is, of him.
Juventus chose Allegri’s ironic streak against the poison of the Super League and Real the disenchantment of Ancelotti. The motivations of the most successful club in Spain and Europe are evident, those of Ancelotti perhaps not so obvious. He was certainly fine where he was, he hoped to bring Everton to Europe and he did not succeed, after the first brilliant months his group’s performance dropped but he had a contract until 2024, resolved yesterday, he had time to plan, yes he was made, as usual, to love and had just refused Inter’s interest in the bud. He didn’t want to change. And it was not the Nerazzurri’s debts that frightened him because Real have more, around 900 million, they have a squad to rejuvenate, they want to greet the senators, the whole Sergio Ramos generation and rebuild. For the first time in history there is not a single blanco name on Spain’s list at the European Championships, proof that next year we have to start more or less from scratch. Yet the Real does not say no, Conte would have liked it, he made Zidane rotate on himself, he lined up many suitors and convinced Carletto that he will take his son Davide with him and this time no one will be able to object.
Ancelotti felt he was being called boiled after the empty lap in Naples and the wavering year at Everton, he didn’t pay any attention to it. At the beginning of his coaching career, when he was at Juventus, they gave him a pig and he replied: «I find it a bit offensive for the pig. Such a noble animal used for an insult ». So even the current skepticism touches him little, it even seems to have reduced his salary, but you want to raise other trophies with the team that is most noticeable: “A challenge with a club that has always remained in my heart has presented itself. Real Madrid ».
With this single sentence the charm scratched by the Super League defeat immediately re-emerges and Perez’s grin moves behind the scenes to make room for Carletto’s smile. The coach knows who’s in charge, but he also knows that the next move is his. –