“I like being called doctor”. It’ll be time to get used to it, because Carlo Ancelottinow coach of Real Madrid, received his master’s degree to honor in Sciences and techniques of preventive and adapted physical activities at the University of Parma. “We are a family genetically predisposed to emotion, so in such an emotional moment it is normal for us to react in this way,” she said from the stage, apologizing for the tears in her eyes.
Ancelotti’s lectio doctoralis
“It will be said that I have done few exams, but the truth is that I have done many and I will do many. Every three days there is an exam that you prepare for and that you have to pass,” Ancelotti said in his doctoral study titled Football: a school of life. On his career: “For me, it was a game: everything started as a game. It was a very long, beautiful, intense, passionate journey, and it continues to be. The most important thing is passion, and passion is not that he buys it on the market. I like football, I like it very much: it has never represented a sacrifice or a job for me.”
“Football helped me make decisions and taught me to keep up with changing times, because football, like all things in life, has changed, is changing and will change in the future, because the rules have changed, the intensity of the game, the methods of preparation, the prevention of the athletes. I also have five grandchildren, who remind me of one thing: that I am a grandfather and that I am no longer that little boy who arrived in Parma in 1975.”
The tribute to Arrigo Sacchi
Celebrating the coach from Reggiolo were, among others, Ariedo Braida, Vincenzo Pincolini, the Parma coach Fabio Pecchia, the Mayor Michele Guerra, the President of the Emilia-Romagna Region Stefano Bonaccini and many fans. An honorable mention went to one viewer in particular, Arrigo Sacchi: “Arrigo was a Martian. He had the strength and courage to innovate in an environment that was a little behind, very anchored to tradition.”
University of Parma, honorary degree for Ancelotti – photo
The University of Parma now boasts one more excellent graduate. Carlo Ancelotti, a legend as a footballer and coach, the only “mister” in the history of football to have won the title in the five main European championships with Milan, Chelsea, Paris Saint Germain, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, is the new doctor in Sciences and techniques of preventive and adapted physical activities. The university awarded him an honorary master’s degree during a ceremony in the Paganini auditorium opened by the speech of the rector Paolo Andrei. Following this, Prisco Mirandola, president of the Master’s Degree Course in Sciences and techniques of preventive and adapted physical activities, read the motivation for the award. The laudatio was pronounced by Marco Vitale, delegate of the rector for Sport and president of the Committee for university sport, and by Luigi Garlando, journalist of the Gazzetta dello sport. Closing with Carlo Ancelotti’s lectio doctoralis entitled Football: a school of life. Arrigo Sacchi, Ariedo Braida, Vincenzo Pincolini, Fabio Pecchia, and Claudio Bozzetti were present. Photo Marco Vasini
2023-10-11 17:21:18
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