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Why Ancelotti Is The Special One, Not Chelsea's Jose

There's only a handful that can truly stand up to the Portuguese, it just so happens that Real's no nonsense Italian is one of them...

Why Ancelotti Is The Special One, Not Chelsea’s Jose

“It’s his opinion, however I see my Madrid team fighting for the title and the Champions League, something last season he couldn’t do”. So said Carlo Ancelotti in response to Jose Mourinho’s criticisms after last March’s defeat to Barcelona. By the end of the season, Carletto was hoisting a trophy in Lisbon that Mou hasn’t touched since 2010, a trophy he couldn’t attain in three attempts in the Spanish capital. There’s only one ‘special one’…and it isn’t the Portuguese.

In purely football terms, Carlo and Jose have much in common. Both have won championships in three different countries, both worked at Chelsea, both coached in Milan, and both can boast Champions League victories. It’s away from the dugout that the tacticians take differing paths. One is funny, liked even by his enemies, attacking and humble. The other is sarcastic, paranoid, narcissistic, disliked by all except a select few and arrogant. The goodwill that overwhelmed Ancelotti on winning la decima (the tenth) was plentiful as even those fans and pundits who have no love for the Madrid machine couldn’t help but smile upon the sight of the voluptuous Italian being thrown in the air by his players. Would this love-in have occurred with Mourinho? Impossible.

So what is it about Ancelotti that makes him so popular? In the forward to Ancelotti’s autobiography, Paolo Maldini says ‘Before big games Carletto cocked his famous left eyebrow and told us jokes. Over the years many tears were shed, but only from laughing…even before Champions League finals!’. Clearly, his bond with the players makes them want to win for him. During his post-match conference in Lisbon he was interrupted by several of his players, who ran up and sang a victory song, with Ancelotti joining in. He was then kissed by Sergio Ramos and Pepe before the players left to carry on the party elsewhere. Frank Lampard spoke of him as ‘…a great coach but more importantly a fantastic man’. Wherever he goes, Carletto exudes love.

In contrast to Mourinho, Ancelotti has always tried to entertain whilst winning. He was nearly sacked seven games into his first coaching job at Reggiana in Serie B (‘…we were a ship of fools and the captain was me’ he asserted). He arrived in Serie A with Parma, where he admits  to being too stubborn, explaining “I had the chance to sign Baggio but I told him he wouldn’t play as he didn’t fit into my 4-4-2, a formation I believed was correct in all cases”. He expanded “It’s only when I arrived at Juventus that I changed my ways, because I had another player who can’t play in a 4-4-2…and I couldn’t really bench Zidane”.

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When coaching Milan in 2003, Ancelotti wanted his team to play beautiful football and received help from Andrea Pirlo. The midfielder explained that when at Brescia under the legendary Carlo Mazzone he played as a defensive midfielder and it worked wonders. The coach agreed to try it and so was born Ancelotti’s masterpiece, the ‘Albero di Natale’ or The Christmas Tree. Milan promptly won the Champions League at Old Trafford in 2003 with a team including Rui Costa, Seedorf, Rivaldo and Shevchenko, and he credits the formation for winning the trophy again in Athens 2007.

There’s no doubting that whilst Mourinho is the king at Chelsea, winning two titles, two league cups and an FA Cup in four years, for the neutral Ancelotti’s version of the blues were much easier on the eye. In his first season, Ancelotti’s team scored 103 goals (Jose’s highest tally was 72 in both his first and second campaigns) and won the clubs first ever double. In the Italian’s title winning campaign, he racked up a series of huge wins, including a 7-1, two 5-0’s, a 7-0 and an 8-0, simply incredible score-lines. One similarity between the pair was that Champions League success wasn’t forthcoming in west London, Mourinho had Rafa Benitez’s Liverpool to thank, whilst Ancelotti lost to Jose’s Inter and Sir Alex’s Manchester United in consecutive seasons.

After winning a Ligue 1 title in France for PSG, Ancelotti signed a contract with Real Madrid for the second time. The first time was back in 2006, but the contract would only become valid once Milan agreed to released their coach. They refused, so Carletto stayed in northern Italy. He still has that contract locked away at home, saying “it is a souvenir of a nice, adrenaline-charged period”. He signed for certain in 2013 though, replacing Mourinho who had lost the respect in a powerful dressing room, but more importantly of Perez who desperately wanted to win la decima. The Italian lost the title to Atletico, but the most important one was won on a humid Lisbon evening against the same opponents, the 55 year old completing in one season what Mourinho couldn’t achieve in three (and in the process overtaking the Portuguese 3-2 in European Cups).

There are only a handful of coaches in world football who have a record to stand up to Jose Mourinho this century. Pep Guardiola is one, but for consistency, success in different countries, tactical variety whilst playing attacking football, all whilst maintaining dignity and respect, Carlo Ancelotti is surely the best coach of the 21st century.

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adekoya asap 11:26 am, 9-Jul-2014

its clear u hate jose mourinho. Nd love carlo more dan *your life

Rob 11:42 am, 9-Jul-2014

Liverpool fan, eh?

uche 12:27 pm, 9-Jul-2014

Yes carlo is d special one his record speaks 4 him. He did what jose fail do in 3 good yrs

Frank 1:24 pm, 9-Jul-2014

Thus your own opinion which is not objective. If you hate Mou don't think we do too.

Gare 4:02 pm, 9-Jul-2014

u wanna know how much players love thier cauches? ask drogba. did u ever read " I am zlatan Ibrahimovich"? (offcourse u would b so dumb if u dnt know d author and content,mayb u should google it). morinho kept Cassilas on d bench and became evrybodies enemy at Madrid,now every one has seen y. Anciloti cauched at stanford,but he can never b liked d way d chelsea faNs love Morinho,u can call dat fat man watever u want,but for us Chelsea fans,Morinho is our special one. by d way,one year later after morinho left Madrid u ar still hating on him,get somtin better to do wit ur life moron.

Stan Dalglish 9:06 pm, 9-Jul-2014

Both great Managers. Prefer Jose but Ancaloti shades it.

Gboy 4:00 am, 10-Jul-2014

Jose will surely silence its critics in Chelsea once again cos we the fans stand by him and all haters will shot their trap.... he has started building d team already so let wait and see.

Vinny Dewel 2:03 pm, 10-Jul-2014

Brasil lost their anger on http://www.ballychohan.com

sam 7:55 pm, 10-Jul-2014

can't believe I wasted 5minutes reading this piece of shit...In Mou we trust regardless of your silly facts...do you have any idea how many years ancelotti went without trophies, or what his league record in italy was?...if you'd keep writing stuff like this, you should consider getting another job.... Blue is the color, Chelsea is the team

Andrew 7:53 am, 11-Jul-2014

Carlo is good but mourinho is the best

Andrew 8:23 am, 11-Jul-2014

Mourinho in his short career he has many trophies than Carlos.yes Carlos is a great manager so is José.. Carlos won the champions league with mourinho team he inherited a complete team that' had beaten Barcelona back to back previously with Carlos beaten twice in the league mourinho brought back Madrid in champions league after 12 years failing in group stages. Mourinho turned chelsea into winners.pipo José is the special one

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