“I have come back to life”. That phrase dand Carlo Ancelotti nothing more than winning LaLiga contains many things. A year ago, he was the coach of the Everton, a historic team in the Premier that fights to be something similar to what it was in its past and to which Carletto arrived alone and to face what seemed like the final phase of his career. Today he is the coach of the great European giant, champion again and surrounded by a large staff. Men who make up his safety zone, his day to day life, his closest support.
Davide Ancelotti, first assistant
He already worked with his father in the first stage in the Real Madrid, eight years ago. He is his first helper after having stepped beside him in the PSG (quarry), Bayern, Napoli and Everton. Es Davide is a soccer scholar who decided to get to know him from the other side when he understood that he did not have enough qualities to reach the elite. Graduated in Sports Sciences, he manages the strategy and all that is called blackboard. Whoever sees him work quickly puts aside the idea that he is where he is because of the son of whom he is.
Franceso Mauri, assistant coach
Another of the familybecause he is the son of Young Mauri, Ancelotti’s physical trainer to win the Décima. So, Francesco already approached Madrid and was shocked by the way of living football in Cristiano Ronaldo. So, the kid stuck with the Portuguese, from whom he learned a lot and who served as inspiration for his thesis and his studies. “Cristiano He told me one day: too much water kills the plants”. It is the same phrase that Ancelotti has used this season when he was accused that the team could fall due to lack of work. He is fascinated by the ability to Carletto to adapt to new technologies. Both like to compare with the time when Ancelotti was a football star.
Antonio Pintus, physical preparation
There are those who say that his way of understanding physical preparation is outdated, but the truth is that he has led a team with 16 players to become league champions and fight until the end for the Champions. He was the physical trainer in Zidane’s first stage, he stayed at the club after the Frenchman said goodbye and when ZZ returned with him. His return to the club was aside from the return of Ancelotti, who accepted without hesitation that condition. His magnum opus was the Madrid of the 2016-17 double, a team that flew thanks to the two units. Now it has repeated, but with many fewer players to exploit. That coach who looked like a sergeant who appeared in Madrid in the summer of 2016 has repeated the method and results.
Beniamino Fulco, technical and physical assistant
On June 6, 2014, he joined the Ancelotti family by marrying Katia, Carletto’s daughter. Born in southern Italy (Campania), he was already Real Madrid’s nutritionist at the time. His work as a dietitian was also carried out alongside Ancelotti at Bayern, Naples and Everton. She met Katia at the University of Parma, where she graduated. Mino, as she is known, is a loco from Naples and before dedicating himself to books and food he was a good quality midfielder in teams like ChicksSporting Mondragone, Cassino or Formia.
Lluis Lllopis, goalkeeping coach
The name of the man from San Sebastian appeared in 2005 in the Madrid quarry. Born in Hernani (1964), his sports career broke at the same time as his fibula. He then decided to channel his life as a goalkeeper trainer and coach. He came to Madrid’s first team from Granada de Caparrós, with whom he had worked before. He was reunited with Keylor Navas, whom he had trained at Levante, and made him the starting goalkeeper for the three Champions Leagues in a row. He returned last summer from the Real after leaving in goodbye to Zidane in 2018 and not being part of the second stage of ZZ. His study work was important for the penalty shooters in the Milan final, in which his analyzes of Oblak were very successful.
Simone Montanaro, analyst
In 2011 he began his career as an analyst coach at Roma, the team in which Ancelotti played for eight seasons (1979-87). He was part of Vicenzo Montella’s work team, with whom he arrived in Seville for the brief adventure in Nervion between January and June 2018. That summer he joined Carletto’s path in Naples. His job is to extract everything that comes out of the matches in the form of data, from his team and from the rivals. He transfers them to Ancelotti so that the technicians can interpret them.
Jóse Carlos García Parrales, retrainer
After a decade at Atlético de Madrid, he joined the White House in the summer of 2012. He has a degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (Autonomous University of Madrid) and Physiotherapy (Camilo José Cela). In addition, he has a Master’s degree in prevention and recovery in sports injuries from the Castilla-La Mancha university.
Niko Mihic, head of medical services
The head of the club’s medical structure. Apart from soccer, he has his own practice, teaches medicine at the CE and serves as a medical adviser for Air France y KLM. In addition, he is the Director of the UPPP (Personalized Early Prevention Unit) in the HM Hospitales group. very close to Florentino Perezis the club’s medical reference since July 2017.
Juan Muro, physio
His history with Madrid is long. He cut himself in 2015, when he left the club he joined in 1996, but he did not stop dealing with some players who blindly trusted his hands, as in the case of Karim Benzema. That is why he returned this season to make his work in the white team compatible with what he does in the Spanish team. He is a professor of the Master in Physiotherapy and Sports Rehabilitation at the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid and the Miguel de Cervantes University in Valladolid. He is an expert in techniques such as Manual Therapy, Osteopathy, EPI, musculoskeletal ultrasound and Diathermy. He also worked with the Croatian national team.
Felipe Segura Ortiz, traumatologist
Jiennense by birth, he has a degree in Medicine from at University of Granada. With the Nasrid team he lived the adventure that was from promotion to play last season in Europe. He arrived last summer at Real Madrid. He has always been linked to the world of sports, for example with the Spanish basketball team. His training is very solid: University expert in Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (University of Cádiz, 1997), Medical specialist in Physical Education and Sports Medicine (University of Málaga, 2007)
Master in Functional Recovery in Physical Activity and Sport (University of Valencia, 2014)…
Pedro Belon, physio
He is a doctor in Physiotherapy specialized in sports and traumatology, postgraduate professor in ultrasound and invasive techniques. Before arriving in Madrid, he worked as supervisor of the Physiotherapy Service of CEMTRO Clinic. He is considered an authority on the treatment of knee injuries.
Ignacio Boto, physio, readaptor and osteopath
Specialist in the field of finvasive physiotherapy. His life has been united to Real Madrid for years. Ignacio Boto arrived at La Fábrica as Juvenile C from Málaga, the club of his city. There he fit into the generation of those from the year 91, straight to the residence and SEK school, where he coincided with players like Lucas Vázquez, with whom he forged a friendship that has been maintained over time and the change of roles. After touring many teams as a player, in the summer of 2021 he returned to the Real Madrid Sports City, but no longer in Factory, but as a member of the first team medical team. For few the League has been so special.
Davide Violati, physio and nutritionist
Another one with Italian blood in the team Ancelotti. Passionate about travel, surfing waves, climbing and everything that smacks of adventure. He is as Italian as he is from Madrid. He is not just a physio, because he is an expert in nutrition. Madrid is the absolute elite, but they know the basics of Madrid football well.
Guido Spirandelli, physio
One more with whom Ancelotti could speak in his native language by surname, but Guido is Argentine, from Rosario (Villa Governor Galvez). She was trained in the classrooms of the Rosario College of Kinesiologists.
Ivan Ortega González, physio
His experience with elite teams is extensive. Before Madrid he worked at Atlético de Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool and Celta. Last season he celebrated the title with the Atletico Madrid in Pucela; she is she has done it with Real Madrid. She has been reunited with Hazard, with which he won the Premier in 2017 at Chelsea. Among the many people with whom he has crossed paths in the world of football, there is one that marked him in a special way: Peter Cech.
