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Ancelotti and Ronaldo after the match | April 18, 2017
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“I’d like to see Ronaldo on the bench, Benzema in the stands and Bale at home.
- Carlo Ancelotti
Jokingly at the press conference prior to the UCL match Bayern München vs Real Madrid
(via all-about-cr7)
Source: tz.de
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His belly is never full. People had told me he was like this before I went to Real Madrid, but until you actually work with him every day, you don’t realise to what degree he takes it.
He is hugely professional and he works as hard anybody out there. From recovery to diet, he takes care of every detail, ensuring everything is optimal.
When I compare it to my playing days, there is no comparison - players today are far more professional - but he takes it to another level.
Carlo Ancelotti about Cristiano Ronaldo (via cr7)
Source: mirror.co.uk
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I don’t know when he’ll keep going until, but I don’t think he’s that old.
Playing in a more advanced position could have an influence. He’s now playing more centrally and with time he’ll have to drop deep less often and stay in a more advanced position.
I think he’ll keep up this high level for three or four years.
I think the Ballon D'Or is deserved, because Ronaldo won the Champions League and the European Championships. He has performed better than the rest this year and the award is a logical one.
For many people this is the era of Messi, but it’s also the era of Cristiano. The competition between them has improved them. Messi is better because he’s had Cristiano, and Cristiano is better because he’s had Messi.
Without doubt he can win the Ballon D'Or again over the next two or three years, like Messi. The rest will still have to wait
- Carlo Ancelotti
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Source: fourfourtwo.com
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You see a different kind of Cristiano Ronaldo when you are the manager of his team. The rest of the world has become obsessed with the image and the look of the man, or how he celebrates when he scores, or how he reacts when things go wrong. I just saw a guy who always wanted to do his best.
First of all, I never once saw him in front of the dressing-room mirror or worrying about how he looked. For Cristiano the priority was always to win.
There were a lot of strong guys in that Real Madrid dressing room – it was a basic requirement of being at the club that you needed a big personality.
Of all of them, Ronaldo and Sergio Ramos were the leaders of the team, and that meant that at times they would speak to their team-mates before games.
Ronaldo cared about the team. He liked to be with his team-mates after the game had finished and talk through what had happened – what had gone well, what had been not so good. He also liked to joke, too. We had a lot of fun over those two years. Even when you play for Real Madrid, and even when the world expects you to score every game, that does not mean that you can’t have a joke sometimes.
Occasionally when he came back from international duty I would say to him, if he had not scored for Portugal, “Hey, Cristiano, what’s going on? You went all that way and you didn’t score?” He would say to me, “Boss, don’t worry, I’m going to score next game.” - Carlo Ancelotti | June 24, 2016
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Although he treats all the players the same, he also understands that, as in any sport or job, he needs to treat the special players not differently, but with more care. At the end of the day, it’s good for the team that you use the players as effectively as you can. Even when you maybe feel that you haven’t got the strength to last the whole ninety minutes, or you feel that you can’t run any more, then you need to do it for the coach. I will do it for him, because he deserves it as he has always taken care of me. Most of my teammates feel the same – players admire him and will hurt for him.
You can see this in the way I played in the Champions League final in 2014. I was injured a month before the game and he said to me a few times, ‘Cristiano, if you don’t feel good, just let me know. It will be tough on me because even if you are only fifty per cent you’re still our most important player.’ So I played. I didn’t play unbelievably well, but I scored a penalty – my seventeenth goal “in the Champions League that season, a record – and we won the competition. I wasn’t fully fit, but I made the sacrifice for Carlo.
Every player should be humble and know that they don’t know everything about football. I always look to learn and take some pointers from every coach. I take a point off this one, a point off that one, because they know – they are older and have the experience. They are not going to teach me how to play football or how to kick the ball, but if you are smart, you can take advantage of every coach and learn about many things that, in my opinion, are important. With Carlo, he develops even the best players by continually making them motivated to work for him. He always motivates me. He would say, ‘Bomba’ – he calls me Bomba, which is Italian for bomber – ‘Let’s go – today you’re going to score a goal; you are going to win us the game, Bomba.’ Even when I didn’t score a goal in the first half, he would speak to me in the dressing room at half-time. ‘You’re going to score,’ he’d say. ‘You’re playing unbelievable.’ He was always giving me confidence, all the time, and for me the most important thing is that he cares for me. He would always take care of me. These qualities are why every club wants him. He’s a special coach.
Cristiano Ronaldo, in Carlo Ancelotti’s book “Quiet Leadership” (via informadrid)
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I like to think that Carlo and I share some qualities; I see some of him in me. I believe that I am a sensitive person too. I sometimes show a tough or even arrogant face to the world, but I’m not like that with the people I love and those who work with me. Carlo helped me a lot and I wish he had stayed longer at Real Madrid. I hope to work with him again one day. Someone said to me, ‘Will you be learning German?’ I say, 'Toni Kroos has taught me a few words, but if one day I have to learn more German then I will learn.’
I have only seen Carlo angry a few times. When he loses his temper he shouts and screams in whatever language comes first to his mind and then, one minute after, he stops, catches his breath and goes outside. Then he returns, smoking a cigarette and totally calm – everything’s fine again.
His ability to regain calmness very quickly is important. He knows how to talk to people and to deal with the bad moments. Even if you had lost a match the day before, he would say, 'Come on, guys, everything’s going to be OK. We haven’t lost anything yet – we just lost a game.’ He was like that with us and with the staff too, which made the environment here at Madrid spectacular. For me, the atmosphere with Carlo was one of his most brilliant achievements. If you look at the two years under him and what we won – the Champions League, the Copa del Rey – it shows how important Carlo was for Real Madrid and for the players. When he left the club, many of us took to social media to say how much he meant to us all. He is an unbelievable person.
One of the reasons the atmosphere was so good was because he protected the dressing room from the president and anything else that might upset the balance of the family. I’ve seen that with my own eyes. People can say whatever they want, but I’ve seen that he doesn’t bow down to pressure from anyone; he makes his own decisions – sometimes good, sometimes bad – which is always the way in the coach’s job. This is why I like him, because he is his own man, with his own personality, his own choices, and he makes his decisions and sticks by them.
Cristiano Ronaldo, in Carlo Ancelotti’s book “Quiet Leadership” (via informadrid)
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“Cristiano Ronaldo bathed in ice at three o'clock in the morning, even if Irina was waiting for him at home. He wasn’t bothered about the money; he only wanted to be the best. I can’t go into details but I can tell you that it is incredible how he has always put his career before models and other issues.” – Ancelotti on Cristiano’s work ethic and commitment (The Financial times, May 20, 2016)
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Carlo Ancelotti takes swipe at Gareth Bale in book | May 16, 2016
Former Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti is set to have his newest book published in 10 days’ time. In it he claims Gareth Bale, who instead of coming to Ancelotti directly, instructed his agent to ask club president Florentino Pérez to allow him to play in a more central position.
“One morning in March I received a phone call from the Madrid general director saying that the president wanted to speak with me at the end of training that day. This was very unusual. When I visited the president, he told me that Bale’s agent had been to his office to speak about the ‘Bale situation’…”
“In January, Bale’s agent had been saying things and perhaps felt his position was strong because he had already spoken with the president. Now he was telling the president that Bale was unhappy in his position. He wanted to play more centrally.
“The president asked me what we were going to do and I told him ‘Nothing’. It was impossible to change his position at that stage of the season because I would have had to change the whole system and move many more players around. I also told the president that I was surprised the player could not speak directly with me. That would be normal. I would have expected the player to come to see me.
"Bale had fantastic world-class qualities and all that I was trying to do was help him understand his core strengths so he could fulfil his potential and by the way, that I was more qualified than his agent or the president to help him with that.
"I told the president that I would speak with Bale myself the next day, which I did after training. I told him 'I know that your agent spoke to the president. Why didn’t you come to speak with me about what you want?’. He said 'Yes, OK, no problem.’
"I explained to him what I had said to the president, how it was impossible for me to change the system as it wasn’t just one position, it was the whole team. I was clear with him. I told him that we could try some things in the summer, next year’s pre-season, to change his position, but not now.”
You can pre-order Quiet Leadership at these retailers (May 26 release date): - Apple iBooks - Amazon - Google Play - Waterstones
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UEFA Champions League quarter finals (April 13, 2015 / April 5, 2016)
“Cristiano is unique for his talent and professionalism – he is also extraordinarily consistent. He’s committed to the team and the club, he doesn’t talk much, but he is a leader.”
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Carlo Ancelotti has a poster of La Decima in his house
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Cristiano and Ramos greet Ancelotti at the Marca awards ceremony | February 8, 2016
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‘MARCA’ awards winners | February 8, 2016 - Ancelotti: La Liga’s best coach of the 2014/15 season - Cristiano: La Liga’s top goalscorer of the 2014/15 season - Ramos: received the ‘Luis Aragonés’ trophy as the best player in Spain NT
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Even after witnessing just how embarrassing & tragic this season has been so far with Real Madrid literally becoming the butt of every other joke, Perez continued to keep his head buried deep in his own ass & insisted that B*nitez is the ‘solution to all the problems’. Even when the fans said they want Carlo back. Even when the players said they miss Carlo. Even after Carlo contacted them one last time in the hopes that the club has seen the light, but no. Now Carlo will be slaying at Bayern while we’ll be playing mediocre football and hoping for 1-0 wins with B*nitez.
#I don't wanna sound dramatic over here but i actually cried#i have so much respect and love for carlo#and i hate Bayern with every fiber of my body#and now they get him and we're stuck with Benitez useless ass#most likely no trophies this season#and what about the next one? lol#we're so fucked#it's like Perez wants to hand everybody else the trophies#I still don't understand how we could let him go in the first place and i never will#:(#rafa benitez#carlo ancelotti