Carlo Ancelotti (born June 10, 1959 in Reggiolo) or nicknamed Carletto, is an Italian former football player and current coach of Real Madrid club.

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1. Overview 

As a player, Ancelotti often played as a midfielder and he and AC Milan won two Scudetto championships and two UEFA Champions League championships within 5 years. He was called up to the Italian team 26 times, scored 1 goal and was present at the 1986 World Cup and 1990 World Cup. He is considered the first person in football history to play as an organizing midfielder, a a position that later became key to modern football with names like Pep Guardiola, Demetrio Albertini, and Andrea Pirlo.
 In a coaching position, Ancelotti is one of the most successful coaches in Europe today. He won a total of 3 UEFA Champions League silver cups and 2 FIFA Club World Cups with 2 different teams. In addition, he also won domestic championships in four different top European countries (Italy, England, France, Germany) and many National Cups, Super Cups,… in his teams. ever led. 

Ancelotti began his football career in 1974 with Parma. In 1979, he moved to AS Roma. Here, he won the Serie A championship title in the 1982–83 season and won the Coppa Italia four times.From 1987 to 1992, he played for AC Milan, and with Milan won two consecutive European Cups in the 1988–89 and 1989–90 seasons. His teammates during this period included many good players such as Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi, Mauro Tassotti and Alessandro Costacurta in the defense; Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit, Roberto Donadoni in midfield and striker Marco van Basten.In the 1988–89 European Cup semi-final second leg against Real Madrid, Ancelotti dribbled past two Real Madrid FC players before scoring the opening goal in Milan’s 5–0 victory. At the end of the match, Milan won the final match with a total score of 6 – 1 and thereby won the right to play the final match of the season. In the subsequent final at Camp Nou against Steaua Bucureşti, Ancelotti also played the full 90 minutes. Contributed to helping the Rossoneri win the third European championship in history with a devastating 4-0 victory. Ancelotti officially retired as a player in 1993, after playing 283 matches in Serie A and scoring 22 goals. win.Ancelotti’s only goal for the Italian team was in a 1 – 1 draw with the Netherlands on January 6, 1981 in the framework of the 1980 Mundialito tournament (a small tournament held between teams that had won the championship). World Championship) took place in Uruguay. He then joined the Italian team for the 1986 World Cup and 1990 World Cup, along with Roberto Donadoni, Roberto Mancini and Paolo Maldini. Ancelotti had 26 caps for the team before announcing his retirement from the team in 1991.

He is one of 7 people to have won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League as both a player and a coach. He won the Champions League five times, including twice while playing for AC Milan (1989, 1990), twice when leading AC Milan (2003, 2007) and once when leading Real Madrid (2014).Carlo Ancelotti started his coaching career at small club Reggiana, and in his first season as coach, he helped Reggiana promote to Serie A. He then moved to Parma and helped the club finish second in the same year. Ancelotti moved to Juventus to replace Marcello Lippi – who had just had a very successful period. However, he did not meet the expectations of the Bianconeri board of directors when he only brought Juventus to second place in Serie A for two consecutive seasons.Carlo Ancelotti left Juventus to work at AC Milan and opened eight glorious years. Before coming to Milan, Ancelotti had not yet won any major titles as a coach, but in eight years at San Siro he won almost every championship at the club level.On June 25, 2013, Ancelotti became Real’s head coach with a 3-year contract.On May 24, 2014, after an impressive victory over Atlético Madrid in the UEFA Champions League final, Ancelotti helped Real complete the Decima dream with the 10th European Championship after 12 years of waiting. Thereby, this is also his third European championship as a coach, equaling the achievements of legendary Bob Paisley in the period 1977 – 1981. 

Ancelotti with the 2014 UEFA Champions League silver trophy just won after the final night in Lisbon.

On May 23, 2018, Napoli announced that Ancelotti would lead the club from the 2018–19 season after Maurizio Sarri moved to lead Chelsea. On August 19, he made his Serie A debut as head coach of Napoli with a 2 – 1 victory at SS Lazio’s Olimpico Stadium. On September 3, he received his first defeat when losing 3 – 0 at UC Sampdoria in round 3 of Serie A.On 10 December 2019, Ancelotti was sacked after a 4–0 home win against Genk – the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage in which Napoli qualified for the knock-out round as champions. second place in Group E. The decision was made by Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis on 11 December.On December 21, 2019, Ancelotti was appointed coach of Everton with a 4.5-year contract until summer 2024. His first match as coach was a 1–0 victory. at home to Burnley on December 26.Ancelotti received the title of Premier League Coach of the Month for September 2020 after leading Everton to win three consecutive Premier League matches at the beginning of the 2020–21 season.In June 2021, Ancelotti returned to his position as head coach of Real Madrid club. In the 2021/2022 season, Ancelotti won his first La Liga championship, in addition, the White Vultures also won the prestigious C1 Cup for the 14th time.In the 2022/2023 season, Real Madrid let their archrival reclaim the La Liga championship. Real Madrid only won 2 cups: the Spanish King’s Cup, along with the FIFA Club World Cup

1.  Includes UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup (1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85 and 1986–87), UEFA Cup (1982–83 and 1987–88) and European Cup (1983–84, 1988–89, 1989– 90 and 1990–91)
2.  Includes Italian Super Cup (1988), Intercontinental Cup (1989) and 1990 European Super Cup (2 matches.)

4.2 International

4.2.1 International goals

4.3 Coach

As of December 10, 2019

5. Personal life

• Ancelotti has two children: a daughter, Katia (born April 18, 1984) and a son, Davide (born July 22, 1989). Davide also played in the Milan youth team and then joined ASDC Borgomanero (a club that was then playing in Serie D) in June 2008. After an unsuccessful professional career, he switched to school. in Sports Science, before taking on the role of assistant fitness coach at Real Madrid when Carletto was also the head coach of the Bernabeu team (2013 – 2015). In August 2016, Ancelotti appointed both Davide and his son-in-law Mino Fulco to his assistant team at Bayern.
• In 2008, Carletto confirmed in an interview that he had split from his wife of 25 years, Luisa Gibellini. In 2011, he began a relationship with Canadian businesswoman Mariann Barrena McClay. Then the two officially got married in Vancouver in July 2014.
• In May 2009, he published a 26-chapter, 264-page autobiography titled Preferisco la Coppa. All proceeds from the sale of the book were donated to the Stefano Borgonovo Foundation to fund research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a rare disease for which physicist Stephen Hawking and his colleagues Former famous player Stefano Borgonovo all had it.

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6. Achievements

6.1 Players

6.1.1 AS Roma

• Series A: 1983
• Italian Football Cup: 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986

6.1.2 AC Milan

• European Cup: 1989, 1990
• European Super Cup: 1989, 1990
• Serie A: 1988, 1992
• Italian Super Cup: 1988
• Intercontinental Football Cup: 1989, 1990

6.1.3 Italian national team

• FIFA World Cup: Bronze medal (1990)

6.2 Coach

6.2.1 Juventus

 6.2.2 AC Milan

• UEFA Champions League: 2003, 2007
• European Super Cup (UEFA Super cup): 2003, 2007
• FIFA Club World Cup: 2007
• Series A: 2004
• Italian Football Cup (Coppa Italia): 2003
• Italian Super Cup: 2004

6.2.3 Chelsea

• Premier League: 2010
• FA Cup: 2010
• English Super Cup: 2009

6.2.4 Paris Saint-Germain

6.2.5 Real Madrid

• UEFA Champions League: 2014, 2022
• European Super Cup: 2014, 2022
• Spanish King’s Cup: 2014, 2023
• Club World Championship: 2014,2022
• La Liga: 2022

6.2.6. Bayern Munich

• Bundesliga: 2017
• German Super Cup: 2016, 2017

6.2.7 Personal titles

• Best coach of Serie A: 2001, 2004
• Ligue 1 Coach of the Year: 2013 (with Christophe Galtier)
• Premier League Coach of the Month: November 2009; August 2010; March 2011; April 2011
• Enzo Bearzot Award: 2014
• Miguel Muñoz Award: 2014–15
• Best European Coach (Alf Ramsey Award): 2003
• World Soccer Magazine Coach of the Year: 2003
• Globe Soccer Magazine Coach of the Year: 2014
• IFFHS Club Coach of the Year: 2007, 2014

6.3 Medals

• Order of Merit of the Italian Republic: 5th class (1991)
• Order of the Star of Italy: 5th class (2014)