Carlo Ancelotti, the most successful coach in the history of the Champions League

The Italian Carlo Ancelotti62 years old, became the manager who has won the Champions League the most times. With the conquest achieved this Saturday May 28, got her fourth title in this competition as technical director.

The first two as coach he won with Milan in 2003 and 2007while the last two were achieved with the Real Madrid in 2014 and 2022.

The Italian began his career as a coach in 1995when he was assigned as coach of the Italian team Reggiana Calcio. By that time he had already had experience on the bench, since between 1992 and 1995 he was the technical assistant of the Italian Soccer Team. Later he was coach of the Parma between 1996-1998 and then left for the Juventusa team he led between 1999 and 2001.

His longest time coaching a team was spent at the AC Milana team he directed between 2001 and 2009 and in which he won his first two European Cups. The first was in 2003 and was played in the Manchester Old Trafford Stadium. In that game those led by Ancelotti They beat Juventus. In the 90 minutes the match was tied without goals. On penalties, Carletto’s team won 3-2.

In 2007, the Milan led by Ancelotti won by 2 goals to 1 Liverpool from England. The goals of the Italian team were scored by the historic striker Filipo Inzghiwhile the English annotation made it Dirk Kuyt.

In the summer of 2013 the Real Madrid he signed Carletto to be his coach. On May 24, 2014, the merengue team played the Champions League final at the Da Luz Stadium in Lisbon against him Atletico Madrid. In that game, in which Real tied the match in the 93rd minute with a headed goal from Sergio Ramos and then passed over the mattress team with a convincing final score of 4 to 1, Ancelotti won his third Champions League as coach and entered the club of technicians who have won this tournament with two different institutions.

They accompany him on that list Ernest Happel (Feyenord and Hamburg), Ottmar Hitzfield (Borrussia Dortmund y Bayern Munich) ,JOsé Mourinho (Porto and Inter) and Jupp Heynckes (Real Madrid y Bayer Munich).

When Ancelotti was a player, he was also European champion. He did it twice with AC Milan in 1989 and 1990. For its part, Real Madrid won its fourteenth Champions Leaguewith which it continues marking distance with its immediate pursuer in number of titles in this competition that is the Milanese team.

Also, this year Carletto had become the only coach to become champion of the five most important leagues in Europe (Spain, Italy, France, Germany and England).

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